All
went to plan today. We got up a
7am and were off by 7:30. It
seemed a very nice day, blue skies and sun, but a hint of cloud was there. We put up the main fairly early on when
there appeared to be a bit of wind.
Then we played games with the wind for most of the morning. It was just off the nose sufficient to
sail, but the wind kept getting up to the top of a 3 and then would fall all of
a sudden to 5 knots. So we were
constantly putting the engine on and then turning it off so we could make a reasonable
pace to get to Amorgos in good time.
Things
changed as we got to the island.
The problem was that the course from Levitha took us to the wrong side
of the Island and it is a long island which we had to go around, a trip of
about 12 miles). Amorgos is known
for being a windy place and would you believe it as soon as we turned into the
wind it went up to the top of a 4!
Not only that, but every time we turned a corner the wind shifted and
remained exactly on the nose. It
wasn’t really a terrible problem because the sea state was benign, but it was
tiresome. Why didn’t we get that
wind when we were able to sail?
Sods law I guess.
The
other thing is that the weather turned.
As soon at we got to the island the sky clouded over and at one point we
thought it might rain, but it didn’t.
Nonetheless, it remained very cool. I never got into a bathing suit.
So
just after 2:30pm we arrived in harbour.
The weather cheered up a little and there was the odd patch of blue in
the sky. We did not even try to go
on the pier, which looked to us to be full anyway. We remembered where we anchored before and found more or
less the same spot. We also
remembered that we had to be relatively close to the shore to leave room for
the ferry to navigate. We did
well. Later the port police came
and moved two boats who anchored too far out in the ferry’s way.
We
are now preparing to go into town to get some free internet access and to have
some dinner. Richard can’t bear
the hassle of putting the motor on the dinghy and taking it off to leave
tomorrow so he will row. That
means we have to beach the dinghy instead of taking it much further to get to
the town pier. Wet feet for dinner
it appears.
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