Beam reaching to paradise ⛵️🌊

Thomas Guy

Eli wakes us up early so it’s the best excuse to see sunrise 🌅. We were also advised that there would be some weather in the south of the Ionion. So we were up for Sunrise, Liam jumped in and undid the lazy lines. We motored out of the bay and had a very rolly start start to the day. Rosita was the first causality of sea sickness and I felt a little quesy but was distracted by the worry of making sure Eli was properly strapped in to the chair we rigged up for when we are sailing. With 15-17 knots of wind we got the sails up and the boat was instantly more comfortable for a beam reach to Kastos. After lovely day relaxing and swimming in a beautiful bay we tied up on the town quay and headed to the Windmill Bar for Margheritas 🍸

Liam

We started nice and early this morning. Alarm went off at 7am as we wanted to leave early to get ahead of some bad weather that was passing. It was just me and Tom slipping off so I got to get a lot more involved. After a bit of prep, it was a quick dip to release the long lines from the shore, then over to the anchor cupboard to pull it up and once we were away, we got the fenders tidied up and moved then dinghy to the mid cleat. It was fun doing it all 🙂 Once we were away, it was a bit of a bumpy morning as the weather wasn’t great. After a bit of breakfast on the go though, we got the sails out and had some great sailing. The wind was on our side so we just rode it all the way up to a beautiful bay on the south of Kastos where we stayed for the day. After a tasty scrambled omelette, some dingy practice and a bit of swilling, we then headed on up to the town where we’re staying for the night. While we were away enjoying the view from the Windmill, it turned out that our anchor had slipped 😱 thankfully we’re doing ABC though and when we returned we found the engine running and Rick and Amy onboard just finishing up after resetting the anchor 🙌🏼 quite mad that things went wrong but the assistance takes all the stress out of things compared to recent experiences in Türkiye 😆 Anyway. Hopefully we’re off early again tomorrow so it’s time for some rest now 👋🏼

Gaia

Eli’s first proper sail, great conditions. We got chased by a storm looking thing for a bit but we escaped and made it to a lovely little bay where the sun ☀️ came back and we got to have a few swim and a nice lazy lunch. We made it to Kastos for late afternoon, for a lovely drink at the windmill and dinner with amazing views. Note to self, when anchoring on the wall in Kastos drop all the chain you have because the harbour is in a concave shape and the anchor slips easily.