You slept in that bay! Nice. What’s this random banging sound you keep getting 🤔. You sure it’s not your crew banging their head on the way to the toilet?

A special day - first time meeting up with another Sailing Pigs boat..! 🐷

Even better - seeing Eli Piglet on his first ever sailing trip 😍😍 

Tom (my co-founder of SailTies), Gaia, Liam and Rosita are crewing for Eli this week on another boat, coincidentally in the same area as us!

Our paths finally crossed, fittingly, on a beach with pigs swimming on it!

It was so nice to raft up and hang out with Eli who is an absolute natural on the boat. To be fair - he has a stellar crew looking after him. 💪 👨‍✈️ 

The bay was busy, though. Quite a tourist spot with the pigs getting a lot of attention.

We left after an hour and had a little photo opportunit before heading our separate ways.

Our night spot was on the SE of Kastos, which gave us a beautiful beam reach. Our record speed of 7.6kts was achieved and no damage! It felt great to finally return to “Paper Plates Bay” where I came on my first sailing holiday and our lack of experience led to a lot of broken things 😂 🙈 

What a difference 4 years and 4,000 miles makes!

I can’t say enough about our magical spot for the night. At first we free swung with 3 other boats and then took the spot of a boat that had lines ashore, stern to the beach. We had two attempts, only to put more chain out to be super secure.

The full moon is HUGE rising into the bay in front of us. Some goats came to say hello. I paddleboarded out of the bay to get the last bit of evening sun. Paradise!

UPDATE (9pm):
Another boat arrives and anchors close to ours. They also long line despite being next to a boat that’s free swinging. Controversial. 

UPDATE (5am):
Another bang noise. Wind coming from port now, so our starboard stern line is a bit slack, perhaps from an anchor slip. But we don’t appear to be further back. 

Next door boat is on the rocks and have ditched their lines to escape. Perhaps they caught our anchor when they slipped?

Stayed up for 20mins and happy with our situation. Slept peacefully until 8.30 😊 

Catching up with Eli and his piglet friends 🐷 ⛵️

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