Thursday, October 7, 2010

Argostoli to Sami

We found Argostoli to be a nice city with real local life besides tourism. A lot of small local shops and many nice people, a lot of them don't really speak English.
We sailed out of Argostoli in a variable wind for 0-15 kts from all directions. At some point the wind stabilized for maybe an hour where we could sail nicely, till we saw the white caps coming against us from the East. We dropped all the sails and wait a couple of minutes till it got to us. It started with about 25kts but dropped relatively quickly to around 17 kts. After getting close to the south cape of Kefalonia we've put up some sails (about 1/2 capacity) and went nicely, close hauled past the cape. We could then continue with full sails, side wind doing up to 10.5 kts speed with Oren at the helm!
We entered the small harbor of Poros a little after the cape but it wasn't deep enough near the quay for us so we left and sailed to Sami. We entered at night into the port. Entry and anchoring was very easy, though at night, to this port we know so well.

Unfortunately, no fish today...

I added today's pictures to the trip's album:

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