Well, the anchor held just fine all night. When we woke up this morning there was hardly a breath of
wind and sea was absolutely flat in the bay. It all belies the weather forecast
which is for big winds this afternoon.
But we will be cautious and go to Leros. So we wake up at 7am, have a quick breakfast and are off by
8am to avoid any bad weather.
The journey was better than expected. The wind was on the nose, but it never went above a force 4
and the sea was flat. So it was
just a motoring slog up to Leros, which was fine. We got here before noon, which was very good time. At the marina there was no delay
getting in and we are back on pontoon E, which is very convenient to the loos
and showers, so that is nice.
We wonder if we were unnecessarily put off going further afield. The weather seems perfectly fine. No strong winds have blown up today and
it has been very hot. We have been
to the office and they will call out an engineer to us to look at the windlass
and the diverter on the holding tank.
The only problem is that the weather forecast has got worse. Winds of up to 38 knots are predicted
and worse than that, the sea is going up to nearly 2 metres. We don’t know when we will be able to
get out of here.
If the weather does really mean we have to stick around here for some
days we may move to Lakki Marina which is at least in the middle of town. We shall see.
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