In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we explain why we were moved on by the port police when we anchored at the Greek island of Amorgos. Plus we show you were ...

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I must admit I feel very exposed right now

Those two are getting out of Dodge

before the big winds come on Saturday

Today we've got up the anchor and move

it about 20 metres that way because

tomorrow and Sunday there's a large wind

coming through which is going to give us

about 30 knots of sustained wind gusting

up to 40 knots, it's all part of the

summer time meltemi here in the Aegean

Sea

Our anchor is in, the holding here is

fantastic, it's mud. The reason we've got

to move is because there's a boat in

behind us and they have an anchor

marking buoy and we can't let any more

chain out because if we did we'd run

over there buoy and that possibly could

entangle with our prop or our rudder so

up anchor move that way, drop anchor, let all

50 metres out in preparation for the big

blow that's coming.

today I'm going to make a snubber

we've already got one but

we like to have redundancy so I'm going

to make a second one today and I'm

recording it because a couple of

subscribers have asked to see how I

actually do splicing.

First I spliced a loop

Then Baz got involved with some rope

and a big rubber

shock absorber by

threading the snubber line around it.

Then I spliced in a metal thimble and

And I finished off with a bit of whipping

So this end goes through and around the

cleat. This end gets attached to the

anchor chain and we let out enough

anchor chain so that this whole rope

becomes tight but it's got flexibility

and that takes the weight and the strain

of the windlass. There you have it - a snubber

We're going on an adventure today!

Yeah we're probably gonna hire a quad bike probably

Yeah. And have a scoot around and see what we can see.

Yeah we're gonna go to the old

town we're gonna go to the monastery

that's perched on the edge of a cliff

and the smallest church in Greece.

We're also gonna check out from land the two proposed

scuba diving sites. From land we can

really scope out whether we can take the

boat there and whether it's worth actually

going there. Yeah. I'm looking forward to

today. It's gonna be a hoot!!

We soon arrived at the Chora, old town

and loved what we discovered there

We are now on the quest for the smallest

church in Greece and that is it it's

I think we've found it Baz! I think we have

It's tiny. It is tiny!

And that is it.

Isn't it sweet?

It's actually attached to another building which is also a church.

Yes, maybe this was this original. This

have been the original yeah

It is the smallest church in Greece. How good is that?

Mission accomplished.

Tick!

We continued north to check out the

first dive site but it looked as if

there was a bit too much current running

through given that I'm a novice diver

Oh wow. That's beautiful, isn't it?

Where that boat is. Yeah. That's where the dive site is

But I would imagine there'd be a bit of

current coming through.

After that we headed to Aigialis Bay

We found the bay with a wreck that we

wanted to dive on the south of the island

But unfortunately the swell was just too

great to consider diving there.

The way

the wind is blowing and the way the

waves were coming in and just the

general swell it made it feel unsafe

On the way back north we discovered the

monastery perched 150 metres on high

steep cliffs on the eastern side of the island

Before returning the quad bike we had

time to explore one more place, the

Minoan ruins just outside Katapala

Murray this one is for you. We are at an

ancient Minoan site on the Greek island

of Amorgos and you would just love to touch this

stone work. This is craftsmanship, look at this

corner work this is amazing the way

they've actually gone okay this is the

face of the rock, this is the side of the

rock, let's make a corner and you can

still see the chisel marks. Look at this

we've got an odd shaped rock. I know

let's find another one and stick both of

them together. Look at that seam! There's

another one of those joins look.

So tell us all about it.

Well okay all that remains of

Minoa now are the Cyclopean walls the

gymnasium and the foundations of the

Temple of Apollo. But Amorgos has been

inhabited from as early as 3300 BC. I'm

reading this... and its peak was during the

Cycladic civilization when there were

three cities. Minoa, Arkesini and Egiali. Wow. So there you go 3300 BC and

they could do awesome stuff with big

blocks and with just chiseling out

I've found a big

stone sir what can we use it for?

I know we'll use it for the side of the door

And here we can actually see that the

the big stones on the outside are filled

in with all the little stones on the

inside. It seems to be quite a common

practice to build that way

Ooh I wonder what that was for, you can see they've

actually carved sort of like a roundish

shape into the stone and it goes down

to the stone below. If these stones could

speak what sort of stories could they tell?

Shall we go and take a look at

the other stuff?

But this looks like a

a natural sort of set of steps and an

entry where they've built

Ooh look at that.

Oh how clever! So

they would make the statue in segments

and to keep them the segments together

they would put a hole in the middle and

then I'm assuming that the piece that

went on top of here had a sticky out bit

of stone at the bottom that went into

that square. Genius

And here at the

threshold you can see that they've

carved out a place where I guess a

wooden upright would go that the door

would be hinged on so there's one on

that side and there's one here on this

side and in the middle is a place for

the lock to go in to keep the doors

locked into place. How good's that?

And we think that we're there first

you know amazing civilization just cuz

we've got sort of technology but when

you think what civilizations before us

achieved it's quite incredible isn't it? It's amazing.

Humanity is just very creative and

resolves puzzles. Five thousand years ago

yeah you know okay I want to do this, how

you gonna do it, well let's do it this

way with that particular mindset. With

another mindset, different culture

different civilization you get something

slightly different. Yeah. It's brilliant

What you want to be when you grow up son?

I want to be a stonemason dad

I want to build things

Well you're in the right era for it son.

Well the sun is

going down and we must get our quad bike

back to the rental place

before they close for the night but we

had to see this place

Well that was a fantastic day out I'm so

glad that we got the quad bike and we

saw some great places and now it's home James

That's it.

And y'all know what time it is don't you?

It's time for a cup of tea love isn't it?

A cup of tea and a slice

cake with Aunt Sally

Thank you Worzel Gummidge!

It's Tuesday the second of August and

today is the day that were upping anchor

from the bay here at Katapala in the

Greek island of Amorgos. The holding

here is very good the bottom is mud and

we know that because since we dropped

anchor here we've had to move several

times moved on by the port police

because there are several ferries that

come in and out of here through the week

and in particular the Blue Star Line

ferries they're very big and when they

come and drop anchor they're very loud

and they get very close if you're too

far out. So I'll include a graphic from

Google Earth with some lines on it to

give you a better understanding of how

the ferries drop their anchor, where they

reverse into and why the port police ask

you to relocate if you're outside of the

zone so to speak. We're not leaving Amorgos completely just yet we're

actually going back up the coast a

little bit to a nice bay that we spied

out from the land yesterday when we did

a tour of the island on the ATV. We're

going to drop anchor there for at least

one night and we're going to try and

scope out see if it's scuba-diveable

or not. After this we're island hopping to

two smaller islands which may or may not

have internet connectivity for us and

then we're going to Ios the Greek

island of Ios to meet up with our

friend Jim on Acheron once again

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