We didn’t race to get up.
Started back to Lakki at
about 10am. Initially the wind was
on the nose, but Richard wanted to
raise the sail and spray it again.
So this time I pulled it u[ (with his help pulling at the mast) and he
sprayed the carts and track. We have decided to go back the opposite way
meaning that we will circumnavigate the island. The nuisance is that every time we turn the wind goes with
us so we motor sail most of the way.
Finally for the last hour we have wind to just sail.
Richard is now worried about another problem on the boat. This is the solar panels. The controllers in the wardrobe
seem to show they are working properly, the the readout unit is not showing any
information. So we are not sure if
the panels are actually charging the batteries. It is hot as we get to the marina and we think maybe it
would be best to put the anchor down in the bay, have a swim and lunch and then
go it. But we want to make sure
there is an electrician coming this afternoon. So I telephone the marina and they are not at all
helpful. They will not treat a
telephone request for works as official and say we must come in to the office
to sign a form first.
So we feel we have little choice but to go in now. We call up for them to escort us in (as
they require) to be told they aren’t ready for us and we have to wait. After about 10 or 15 minutes they call us
to say we can come in. We follow
the rib to near where we were moored before and when we ask why we aren’t going
to the same berth we are told that even with a contract there is no permanent
birth and we just take pot luck.
This pot luck is bad. It is
the very opposite side of the marina from all the facilities. A read drag.
But we manage a Greek salad for lunch and soon thereafter the
electrician comes. He is the nice
guy who sorted out our fridge. He
is puzzled. All the tests he does
show that the panels are working fine and charging the batteries. He cannot figure out the readout,
because it is Italian and he has never seen one before. But they he has a brainwave. He just disconnects the readout monitor
and in effect reboots it and puts it back. Guess what—It works!
Richard has also retrieved our gas bottle. We are told it can be refilled in Samos, so we will go there
tomorrow to meet up with Jonnie and Marion.
We manage a swim in the little beach which has accumulated tons of
plastic bags, bottles and other rubbish since we were last here. But we cool off and then have a
shower. R has ascertained that the
good butcher in town it open until 9pm.
We were going to walk into town, but it is too hot. So we have ordered a taxi which will actually
come to the boat and save us the walk around the entire marina.
At 8pm our taxi comes. In
town we manage to buy meat which is vacuum packed and should last about a week. We find the restaurant we had wanted to
go to is shut because their grill has broken down. We find a place we have never been to. It is busier that anywhere else, so
that seems good. We have their
daily specialty, sea bass baked in the oven with potatoes, olives and pine
nuts. It is delicious
Taxi back to the boat. The
restaurant put our meat in their fridge, so it should keep well.
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