In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we find plenty of rolly anchorages and don't get much sleep. Then we arrive at Polyaigos island and really enjoy diving ou...

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We woke up yesterday morning to a very

rolly, very rolly boat at about 4:30 a.m.

Another rolly anchorage and another

night of disturbed sleep and I use the word

sleep very loosely. So where are we?

We're not in Ios any more were in Folegandros

We weren't going to come as far

south and west, we did want to go to

Sifnos but when we woke up yesterday

morning the wind had changed direction and

the waves were short and sharp and

actually when we came out of the bay

hoping to turn north towards Sifnos

the wind and large swell it was nearly 2

metres were just impossible to fight

against. It was obvious that we were

going to make a six-hour passage that it

was going to be an extremely

uncomfortable ride so we made a quick

decision and turned south and ended up

at the anchorage on the southern side of

Ios which actually turned out to be very

nice that's called Manganari, which is

where we stayed overnight. The wind was

in the high 20s and it gusted to the 30s.

It did calm down towards early morning

Last night we reviewed our sailing plans

and instead of going north to Sifnos we

decided to go slightly south and west

past Sikinos and we've arrived here at

Folegandros

It's a nice wide bay actually and there

are lots of areas where you could anchor

off here. We're sort of in the middle of

the bay in 9 metres and the anchor went

straight in, it's a sandy bottom and

she's held really well. There is still

the occasional gust of wind here but

it's nothing like it was yesterday.

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Another rolly anchorage and another

night of disturbed sleep and I use the

word sleep very loosely so where are we?

We are in the only anchorage on the west

coast of the Greek island of Folegandros.

Now if the wind is coming from the north

or the south then of course what happens is

your boat lays side on to the big open

bay here and the swell comes in and you

get a rock-and-rolly night. Now I've

come out on deck the wind is coming out

of the East which has pointed us in the

right direction but don't know if this camera

is actually going to try and pick this

up but there's hardly any swell but that

little bit that a little movement will

make the boat rock and roll all night

and it's no fun. There are plenty of

options in this bay if you want to take

a line ashore, those guys over there have

done it but of course that does put them

in a north-south configuration leaving

them exposed to any swell coming in

These guys on this wall here and

unfortunately the sun is blocking most

of the view, they are in a perfect

position for the swell however with the

Greek islands being subject to

earthquakes small earthquakes but enough

to shift the big rocks and that hill

behind him has some really massive rocks

just waiting for a little shake to come

tumbling down. So if you're

planning on anchoring with the line

ashore just have a look at the rocks

behind you before you choose your spot!

The holding here is fantastic, the sand

is very fine

we're in 9 metres of water and we've got

45 metres of chain out which is 5 to 1

It's mostly sand there are some weed

patches around so you can pick and

choose but it's a big bay and plenty of

room for everybody. A very small town

here at the head of the bay where you

can probably get supplies we haven't

been ashore, so we don't know for sure but

today we will be moving on from here

we're going north-northwest to a small

anchorage just off the eastern side of

the island of Milos, should be fun it's

about 17 miles so not too long at all

On our way we were lucky enough to see

some dolphins dolphins and one even came

up to the bow of the boat and swam along

with us for a while

Hiya fella!

There they go!

We arrived at Polyagus after motoring

for three hours as the wind was only

blowing 3.5 knots. We dropped anchor in

Livadki Bay in 8 metres of crystal-clear

water and let out 32 metres of chain. The

bottom was good holding with sand and

some weed. After putting A B Sea to bed we

went snorkeling and checked the anchor

and also the bow thruster which had been

making a slightly different noise than usual.

As you can see it had quite a bit

of growth on it which Baz scraped off a bit later

It's Sunday morning and we are having to

leave this beautiful anchorage - would

like to have stayed here a few days longer

because it's great for snorkeling the

water here is beautiful. When we came in

yesterday it was dead calm and flat and

there was everyone and his dog here but

today it's only us and one very plucky

motor catamaran parked, up everyone else

has buggered off and the reason why is

because there's a bit of a blow coming

in today and it's coming in from over

there so it's got all that distance to

create a lot of fetch and a lot of waves

and that will put us on the lee shore

with rocks and we don't like the sound

of that so we're going to travel about two to

three hours around into the bay of the

Greek island of Milos and we're gonna

set up camp there and wait out the blow

and we might even stay in Milos for a few

days maybe a week and get some work done

So, let's bring that anchor up and bugger off

Our Australian courtesy flag really

hasn't held up very well at all we got

this one in Turkey because we forgot to

order it when we ordered all of our

other courtesy flags from the UK. It

hadn't been up long when the ends of the

flag started to fray. I've already fixed

it a couple of times, today I decided

that I would give it another sew, but a

few days on after a couple of big winds

and as you can see the flag hasn't held

up at all so we're hoping that when Luke

comes out to see us from Australia soon

he can bring another courtesy flag with

him when he visits.

Had a bit of a moment there thought the

GPS had buggered off on us but it's come

back online. I'm gonna have to seriously

look at this system when we get to

somewhere where we can get the work done

It's not good

We're now in Milos bay on Milos Island.

There's supposed to be a bit of a

blow coming in and we're just checking

out the best anchorage for us. We do need

provisions so at the moment

we're heading to the main port

and we're gonna check that out

So we left at ten past eight. Yep

So we're in six and a half feet and

we've got 40 metres of chain out ...

metres

Turn around, it's just there

Next week on Sailng A B Sea

we replace the furling line to the

headsail and we find once again the one

boat job leads to another boat job.

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