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So as far as we're concerned that is mission accomplished
Next we're going to hike up the hill and have a look at the big old castle. Medieval castle. Yeah
It's huge and so is the hill!
Well that anchorage on the
southern side of Lipsi got very busy overnight and this morning everybody has
upped anchor and left, us included. We are heading to Liros. There's really not
enough wind for sailing but we have got the head sail out acting more like a
kite than a wing in the hopes that it might give us an extra half knot. So
we've got our starboard car as far forward as possible in the hopes of
giving that some more balloon edge I guess. It's probably not on the right
term for it and somebody will correct me for that but as you can see a little bit
of wind we have got isn't really doing much at all. We'll see how it goes we
might have to bring it back in
After our partially successful quest for
internet on the Greek island of Lipsi, we motor sail the short nine miles to
the island of Leros where we dropped anchor in a Alindas Bay
Ten! Keep going
Not only was Leros our next to planned island to visit it was also the island
where we hoped that we could find some sort of final conclusion to our quest
for Internet data, so we took our dinghy ashore to the main town and eventually
after walking up a big hill we found what we were looking for.
Well Baz. Had
a win. Yay! We've got 30 gigabytes of data - yeah - which cost 25 euros. It
lasts for three months - wow - but it is with a provider called Wind. Right. And most of
the big islands have somewhere where you can buy more credit if you need be.
Oh fantastic well done! I'm a happy camper!
Now we can go and have a beer! Yeah.
So as far as we're
concerned that is mission accomplished. Cheers
Next we're gonna hike up the hill and have a look at the big old castle. Medieval castle.
Yeah it's huge and so is the hill
Why do they always make these steps just wide enough that you have to do two
steps and you get one leg doing all the lifting work?
Somebody's evil scheme, that's what it is!
You've gotta love the absolute dedication to detail inside all of these Greek
churches whether they're little teeny tiny ones or fairly decent-sized ones
like this inside the castle.
Amazing
I'll admit that I'm not the slightest bit religious in any way shape or form
but I can appreciate the dedication that some people put into their faith. Wow
Again another amazing feat of engineering, building an arched roof just
with stone and making it stay there
With our mission to find a good internet SIM card now complete and our curiosity
about the castle quite sated we upped anchor and set sail for our next
destination. Well it's just after midday on Thursday and we are leaving Leros and
heading to the small overnight anchorage at Levitha which is around around 27-30
nautical miles away. We've got the head sail out at the moment because we got
the wind right behind us once we get past the headland here out of the bay
we'll be turning to starboard and that will probably make a bit of a difference
to which way the sail wants to be so we might have to tack as soon as we get
out. We'll see what the winds like when we get out there, hopefully we're going
to get 15 to 20 knots all the way - on the beam
We've arrived in Levitha or Leveetha and that took seven hours. Yeah it was a
bit strange, the wind is very very changeable, one minute we were having a
great sail with 15 knots of wind, doing five and six and even seven knots of speed
then all of a sudden the wind sort of picked up to 25 and at one point went
close to thirty but it came from a different direction and caused the
waves to build up. There was at least two metre waves at one point. Two to three metres. And it's just
very strange for us to to see the wind to change speed and the waves to go
from fairly calm to 2 or 3 metre waves all of a sudden but I guess that's the
Mediterranean for you. We'll have to cope with it. Yeah, specifically the Aegean.
Yeah, but we're here we're actually on a mooring ball
this is a little mooring field, presumably supplied and maintained by the
restaurant that's just up over the hill there to the West. This is our
overnight stop for tonight which is Thursday night and then
Tomorrow we go to Amorgos
All right. You know what time is, I'm saying nothing
I'm saying gin and tonic
Good morning it's just after 6:30 on a Friday morning and not a cloud in the
sky and there's a slight breeze from the north and slightly west but of course we
won't know for sure what the wind is doing until we stick the nose of A B Sea out
there. W we are planning to head further west today to the island of Amorgos
so it's brekkie time bring, the dinghy up, close the sea-cocks, close the hatches and
slip the lines
Clear!
I'm gonna pull back
Well that was a mixed bag of jellybeans. Yeah and not all tasty either.
Coming out of the island
where we just where we had both sails out, reefed and we achieved a maximum
speed of 7.4 knots under sail! Yes that was pretty - that was the best
bit really wasn't? It was great I enjoyed that bit. Yeah. The waves were sort of long rolls
about a metre and a half yeah yeah and then we had to climb up and around the
northern part of Amorgos island, yeah that was a bit sketchy because we were
really close hauled to the point that sometimes I would go try and get a bit
too high on the wind and we'd lose everything and have to drop off and yeah
yes it was very touch-and-go and at the last final bit out to the western
tip of the northern part we we just couldn't climb any higher and we were
going to get the big rock face so we had to put the engine on and go around the
corner with the engine.
Yeah I mean look I'm thinking purist sailors probably
would have tacked but we're still learning you know But attack would have
actually taken as backwards. Yeah I know, I think that's the thing with tacking isn't
yeah. Anyway so that was the decision that we made yeah. And then coming down the
west coast here of Amorgos island in Greece we motor sailed. Yeah. Because the
wind was there, then it wasn't there, then it was there, then it wasn't there. So rather than take the
sail in and out we just put the motor on and that kept us at a steady speed which
was great. About seven knots wasn't it? Six and a half/seven
Yeah six and a half, seven which was pretty good. Yeah so we finally got here at 2.40?
It was 2.40 when we arrived and we left at 8 o'clock, yeah five to. Yeah yeah. So here we
are anchored Pretty little place. It's a very long thin
island and this seems to be the main - only - main, I'm sure there are tiny little
villages but this is the main one. Yeah ferries come in here there is a place if
you want to tie back on the dock over there. I'm not sure what the charge is
we'll find out if we can't find out we'll let you know. Or if there are any utilities and
utilities I don't know what's included. So we have put the boat
to bed. Now it's time to find out if we have a signal for the internet yeah then
you'll find out about this or something sooner. Yeah all righty. See ya. See ya
Next week on Sailing A B Sea the port police ask us to move on for anchoring too
close to the ferries and we hire a quad bike to explore the Greek island of
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