Sunday, April 12, 2009

Back to Preveza

A couple of days ago we landed in Ioannina. We rented a car and spent 24 hours in the picturesque mountains of Epirus (Zagohoria - the villages of Zagoria). We were there a week before the season tourist officially starts, at Easter. As you can see in the picures, they still have some snow, and the villages were more or less empty. The two families we met there were all from.... Israel!
We stayed the night in a small isolated village (1100m) called Papigo. Even in our modern times, there are no shops, no fresh provisions in the village. For anything, you need to drive 1/2 hour to the closest village.
See some pictures at:

Papigo, Epirus, Greece

On Saturday, the boat was already waiting for us in the water.
We found the boat in a very good condition, clean and dry inside.
Only one mysterious thing: The covers of the wheel and table were off, thrown on the cockpit floor, and the navigation screen cover was gone. It feels like it was stolen, but we can't be sure. Anyway, other than that, all looked fine.
While checking all the systems I noticed that three Raymarine
instruments (depth, speed and wind) are not working at all. I looked everywhere for fuses, torn cables, but all looked great - nothing wet, no corrosion. We called an electrician who initially was helpless as well, but then I noticed, looking through a narrow slit behind the instruments that one of the connectors looks a little bit out. So after taking the deck apart, we could reach the back of the instrument to properly plug it back in. All started to work!
The weather yesterday was perfect. Today we have some clouds with a 15-20kts East wind which makes it a little bumpy in Preveza.

Hopefully, we'll start sailing tomorrow (depends on the weather).

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