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Josephine in Olympic
at the end of Winter
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It was pleasant to return to this crisp but dry atmosphere but ironically for the first week the weather at home was warmer than Greece !
Having arrived late on Easter Sunday we spent the first two days putting the boat back together and then left the marina on the Wednesday and motored (due to lack of wind) across to the Island of Kea, the most northerly of the Cyclades.
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| Sailing again & all wrapped up. |
After a couple of days in Kea, we sailed down to Lutra, on the Island of Kythnos. This harbour was pleasantly quiet on our arrival with only Josephine and one other boat moored in it.
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| Josephine in a "Quiet Lutra. |
Twenty Four hours later the small harbour was jam packed full with more boats arriving, and being stacked up on the outside wall with long lines ashore.
The always pleasant and helpful harbour master Stavrous had his hands full with boats struggling to squeeze into small spaces in a strong wind
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Josephine crammed into a full Harbour.
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It was literally like the United Nations with a multitude of nationalities. It was noticeable that we were the only Brits.
After a couple of nights we were the first boat to leave we left early on purpose to avoid the inevitable later turmoil with crossed anchors etc..
We set off for Siros 25 miles to the East, and the wind soon filled in to a perfect 20/25 Kn. beam reach and our first full sail of the season. With two reefs in the Main and Genoa we were hitting
8.5 Knots and had an invigorating passage to Finikas.
We are presently anchored in the very pleasant Ormos Villas on the SE corner of Siros. Unusually for
this area there is NO WIND FORECAST, and so we are going to chill out here before setting off again. Our destination ? we don't know . We will just wait and see which way the wind blows !!
