Having gone to the local restaurant to get good enough WiFi to check the weather I decided to leave the following morning. There were some southerlies forecast and some quite strong southerlies between Italy and Albania but the models showed these some way off..The alarm was set for 5am but I woke earlier. Unusually for this year then engine took three or four goes to start. I reversed off the dock (having gone in forwards) at about 5:20 and after some backing and filling motored out of the marina and headed for the entrance to the bay with two reefs in the mainsail. There was no wind and the bay was flat calm.. I was concerned about the area just south of the entrance to the bay on the seaside because there have been many difficult experiences there in the past, including my own. As it happened, despite some wind funnelling in at the entrance itself, the wind was actually light but typically right on the nose. There was a swell which was on the beam which was sufficiently big to knock things including very big heavy bottles of water over. I ended up putting them in the guest cabin. There were a few times when the engine seemed to make an odd noise but the gauges seemed ok and the bilge looked normal so on I went. I kept the mainsail up pretty much all the way to Sarande. As I was coming into the anchorage the engine seemed to slow and then when I took it out of gear and went back into tick over it seemed ok. After I got the anchor down I looked and pretty much all the oil was gone from the reservoir..from.Max to way below the Min line on the dipstick..It barely even registered. The agent arranged for an engineer to come over on a taxi boat and he discovered oil in the sweet water. He will return with his tools in the morning. I just hope the news isn't catastrophic.

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