Rafting with Maestro

Liam

Another early morning slip. This time I was on the stern lines and despite consciously trying to avoid a knot, I managed to prefect the mid-air knotting as i pulled it back. We quickly dropped some anchor back and reversed against the wall so that I could hop off and unknot the line and then we were away. After some breakfast, I practiced my bowlines as I was on the longlines next. Things went well and we dropped anchor and long-lined in a beautiful bay 😍 Later in the day we had a surprise appearance from Maestro which was great! After we parted ways, the wind was on our side and we had some lovely sailing up to Abelaki bay where we’re stopping for the nights. Firsts for this voyage: - getting a knot when releasing the stern lines - doing the long lines - rafting with another boat

Gaia

Nice to meet up with Chris for a quick hello and swim. I didn’t go anywhere near the wild boar with the little tasty looking baby no matter how domesticated people say they are. We had a great sail in the afternoon after meeting up 🥳 Note to self: when long lining you can politely ask to lean against someone’s boat if you don’t have much space or you take longer than expected.

Thomas Guy

Just after sunrise we slipped from Kastos town quay. Rosita on anchor and Liam slipping our stern lines we had to pause for a mo as the stern like helpfully tied its self in a knot leaving us attached to the harbour wall. Anchor chain back out to its limit, a nice big jump from Liam to the harbour to untie us and we were off. Breakfast was MUCH calmer than the day before and the plates were happy to stay on the table this time as we motored across the bay. We headed to one horse bay famous for the wild boar that roam the beach. It gets busy here so arriving early we set up a very casual and successful long line to enjoy the bay in all of its turquoise tranquility before the masses turned up. After some splashing about Maestro popped on the radio announcing their arrival. Randomly co-founder of SailTies Chris is also sailing the area this week! So we tried our first long-line raft, and tied ourselves together. Lovelllly to see Chris, Becca and Beccas family 🥰, they got hugs with Eli, we had a chat and a swim then looked up to see the bay full of boats :-/. Packed out Chris and co decided to lunch somewhere less busy and set about heading off. With their anchor under another boats there was some manoeuvring to be done and then they were off, we quickly followed and had a lovely boat 2 boat selfie 📸. Both our sails set we headed off in opposite directions enjoying 15-19 knots beam reach to a beautiful bay on the north of Meganissi ⛵️