Catching up with Eli and his piglet friends 🐷 ⛵️

Chris Jacobs

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 😊

Becca

Today we get to see Eli skipper on his first sailing holiday 😍 We left our parking spot on the south side of the bay and headed into town in search of water to stop the beeping noise that this boat makes if any tank goes under 50%. We absolutely nailed the reverse park into the water station, lines straight on and Mum and I headed for the bakery whilst the water was being filled. After a coffee and croissants for the gluten eaters, we set off in search of Eli and the piglets 🐖 We beam reached all the way to the corner of ‘Greek pig beach’ as we’ve been calling it. It was beautiful! The bay was quite full already. We radioed to Eli, he said to come and raft up with us. So under his instructions, we parked next to them and swapped lines from stern to bow on each boat. It was so lovely to meet Rosita, see Tom and Gaia, Liam and obviously Eli 💜 He had his turtle and seal swimming outfit on complete with his sun hat.. ready for the paddling pool 😍 On the beach the piggies are roaming around and have a lot of attention from people taking selfies.. just like us! After a nice swim and catch up, we headed out of the bay, completing a quick photo shoot on the front our our boats before parting ways. With the wind was swaying between 14-18 knots, we reached a record 7.6kts 🙌🏼 the best sail yet. It could only be topped with arriving into a paradise bay, perfect parking, a full moon, bbq and then quiz on the boat 🤩🌝