We had a rather latish morning.
The original plan was to just go to a very small neighbouring island for
the night, but when Richard looked at the weather forecast he was not
happy. The winds and sea are going
to increase over the next couple of days.
He doesn’t want to take chances with us getting back to Leros Marina in
time. So instead we decide to go
to Leros. We won’t go into the
marina. We will anchor for the
night and see what tomorrow brings.
So sometime after 10am we set out. As the wind should be behind us and be a force 5, we don’t
put up the main. We will just sail
on Genoa. Well, that was the plan
anyway. But the winds did not
cooperate. Instead we had very
light winds of under 11 knots which weren’t pushing us along much at all. The 16 mile trip would have taken 8
hours at the rate we were going.
So first we just motored.
Then we put up the main.
The sea is fairly flat, but still at bit lumpy. Then the wind disappeared more or
less. We were approaching Pandeli
Bay, so we took the Genoa in. What
happened then, well, of course the wind got up to 17 knots, just as we wanted
to take the main down and set our anchor.
What is it with us and fluky winds?
Anyway, we anchored safely in the bay. When we came in we were the only boat at free swinging
anchor. There were about 6-8 boats
all stern to with lines ashore at one end. However, within a few hours the bay filled up with other
free anchor types like us and there are now about 11 boats anchored in our
area.
The weather is hot and sunny.
We have been in the water regularly. Richard has checked the anchor twice and found that it is
properly dug in. We aren’t
bothering to go ashore. We’ve had
lunch and dinner aboard. I need to
use up all the food as we go home in 4 days.
Richard is threatening to have us go for a skinny dip before
bedtime. It is just about hot and
dark enough to do it.
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