Cloudy sail to start the trip home

Chris Jacobs

Set off from Kalamos after a trip to the bakery for some delicious Feta Pretzel Bread thing 🥨 🧀 😍 Our anchor was caught on another chain, so we executed our new slip line skills from Fiskardo EXPERTLY 💪 Coming round the east of Kalamos was windless and gave us time to chill. Once we got round the corner the wind picked up and the sails came out! The wind is coming from our destination today, so there were quite a few tacks which is pretty simple with the self tacking gib, however we do need to adjust the traveller each time. We anchored and free swung in Abelieke, which was hassle free bliss. Steve and Paul took their Kevin driving test and passed with only a few minors… I dropped the kids off at the beach bar and Becca and I went to chat with our neighbour to ask them about their anchor snubber, as they did it differently to us. Little Wing is a new live aboard crew from the UK, just two weeks into their adventure based out of Preveza. They have two kids (9 and 5) who are about to start boat-home-schooling, very cool! Their anchor technique is to hook on the snubber (not rolling hitch), a shock absorber in the line and then let out LOTS of extra chain to create a big loop in the chain to add more shock absorber. Can’t wait to try it! Just as we left, I saw Lady Katerina entering the bay, the first charter yacht I sailed in the same bay we had our last night. Special reflection moment on how much we’ve achieved in 4 years 😊 💫