In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we pay homage to the sea god Poseidon at the temple to Poseidon at Sounion, mainland Greece. Then we take our Patreon gues...

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Come on!

Just that little bit.

Do you want me to go up and twist it?

If you want

A little bit of action that was cool wasnt it?

Have you got your 10 metre mark up? Right okay I'm just gonna drive right over it

Just check those shackles and the seizing wire

Alright I'll get it into overdrive and then I'll do it now

What day is it, Friday? Yeah

It's Friday morning and we're leaving

Porto Rafti and we are heading south

to Sounion and we're going to stay there

in the bay underneath the temple of

Poseidon that's on the hill. We'll stay there overnight

and then we'll make our way tomorrow to Varkiza, so

There's not really much wind predicted

although I am feeling wind on my face so

you never know what we find

when we get out of the bay

Lack of wind meant we motored.

As we passed Siri industrial port we had to

dodge a few tankers

One began increasing speed as we got

close to its bow so Baz made a quick

right turn to starboard

That's Poseidon's temple and that's

where we're going. We're back at the bay

at Sounio and we had a pleasant 3-hour

motor down the channel but nothing much

to write home about. It's a bit rocky and rolly in here

there's a lot of traffic going out the

bay and with the wind coming from the

north east we're side onto the rolly rolly so we're

hoping it's gonna shift shift or the

wind will either shift or the traffic

will slow down as the night comes on

because a rolly rolly night is not

a fun night. No. Anyway we're gonna go pay

homage to Poseidon. Yes I think that's

very good to do that. Yeah you brought

any fish? No. I'll say some nice things. Okay

Charm him with my words. Okay

Well there's not much choice where you can park your

dinghy in this bay. There is a hotel with

a very defined swimming area which

clearly does not want you to enter at

all and slowly get yourself to the beach

and to be honest with you, were quite a

few people in the water and people in

water don't understand boats unless they

actually live on them so rather not do that

We have found this little jetty

that we've tied our dinghy up to and

wandered up some steps and we can see

the main road from here so we're going

to head over there but yeah not very

good access if you want to come ashore here.

There's our dinghy and there's A B Sea,

the fringe dweller

And just round that corner is the big

beach with the hotel and the very

defined swimming area. Anyway let's

wander up to the main road

Well I stand corrected, we've just

stopped here at the fish tavern to have

a refreshing beer, coffee and coca-cola

as requirements need before we head up

to the temple of Poseidon and we've watched

a couple of dinghies and tenders come in

from the yachts and the big power

cruisers that are anchored outside here and it

seems that you can come in through this

designated swimming area at either end

of the line of marker buoys that

they've got out because on closer

inspection we can see that the hotel

complex has got its own private beach

and either side of that there are two

public beach areas so you can come in to

the designated swimming area on the

extreme edges of the buoys and bring your

dinghy ashore there. Going very slow of course

Now that curved wall, that's stonework

Love it!

This is our last hop to the anchorage

where we're going to leave Aannsha

wearing a captain's hat. We're going back

up to Varkiza and I'm going off to the reunion.

What reunion you might ask. I'll tell you

about that later

Varkiza was the end of the line for

Shelley and Ian and I took them ashore in

the dinghy to get them to the air B&B

where they'd spend a couple of nights

before heading off to Athens Airport

and back to Australia

Okay.

Alright good people. Love you.

Bye. Bye

Meanwhile, Aannsha stayed on board to do

some much-needed laundry

Oh hi! Today's laundry day on board A B Sea

and this little bucket of laundry took

me two hours to wash. Why? Well we don't

have a washing machine on board and so

everything gets washed by hand. We also

have to conserve water because we've got

limited water, we don't have a water

maker and so I have a little process so

that I can get everything washed in salt

water and well rinsed so that the salt

doesn't degenerate the fabric. Let me show you.

This is my system for washing

and rinsing clothes without using too

much of our fresh water so I've already

washed all of the clothes in salt water

and laundry liquid and squeezed them out

and they're all here. I then rinse them

in salt water to get the laundry liquid

out then I give them a rinse in fresh

water to get rid of some of the salt

water and then I give them a final rinse

in fresh water just to get rid of any

traces of salt and then wring them out

and pop them in there

When this fresh water gets too salty

I'll drain that out and I'll use that

one in there and then top that one up

with fresh water. It sounds complicated

but it seems to be the best system I've got

And once all that's done I hang the

washing up on ropes. So again a rope

isn't called a rope on board a boat.

This one is a washing line!

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