Sunrise slip back to Nisos Base

Liam

Early start this morning, had to be back at 8:30 and off the boat by 9. It was a bumpy evening as the wind was coming into the bay and while we were worried about a repeat of Türkiye, we had learned from our past mistakes and made sure that we had plenty of anchor out. We dropped 75m in ~15m of depth and it held us in place just great. It was a little slack, but we didn’t want to attempt to tighten it up at the risk of disturbing it. The evening consisted of a tour of the bay in Kevin, some swimming, a nice onboard meal, pre-packing and some stargazing. Up at 6:45, prepped for departure. I hopped in the dinghy and pulled myself to shore to release the long lines. We slipped off and came out the bay just in time to see the sun rise from behind the mountains. There was some light wind so we got the sails out for one last time and had a nice moment of tranquility with the engine off. Once the wind changed direction we motored our way in. Arrived at 8:16, got the boat back into base nice and quickly and were off by 8:36. And that’s the end of a great trip. I can’t wait for the next one! See the whole trip here: https://sailties.net/trip/eli-greece-2023

Thomas Guy

After a bumpy start to the night we did some star gazing. It felt pretty comfortable as even though it’s quite a narrow bay we managed to get all 70m of our chain out 😊. Up early to catch sunrise slipping the likes was very fast and smooth. A wonderful trip! 🥰

Gaia

Lovely to find that the boat did not shift overnight despite the north wind 💪I guess 60m if chain did the trick 😅 I love the little trips back to base in the morning and not having to fuel up the boat is a treat that brings me a huge amount of joy. Eli was very happy about it too as he tends to be at that time of the day.