Around 16:00 Vangellis arrived with our Jib back from Athens . We were happy to hear the good news . His sails maker agreed to fix the jib although it was Saturday and a day before the long weekend election day in Greece.... He also told us that the previous fix done in Cyprus was a bad job , done with a normal thread used for clothes and not with a UV protected one that should be used for sails !!!
Around 17:00 we left Poros on our way to spend the night in one of the bays around Angistri. We motored out the Poros canal and started our preparation for a nice short 15 miles of sailing in 20-25 Knots of wind. The moment the mainsail went up we noticed that there's a problem! One of the mainsail batten pocket stitches had at least a 1M long opening!
We had to take the mainsail down immediately.
We motored around 4 Knots of speed against the 25 Kn wind and just 10 min before sunset we anchored in a beautiful bay on the south side of Angistri.
This morning, we started the day by patching the batten pocket. We put a 1m sticker over the batten, hoping it will hold. We haven't tried it yet. No doubt, the windy hell under Amorgos did not spare our sails.
after a short swim, we started our way towards the Korinthos canal.
The sea was calm and the Meletemi started slowly to pick up . we decided to do some fishing again.
And this time we got a quiet big one! Another 10Kg tuna!!
Just when we finished to clean the fish , the Meltemi was already picking up and we motored the last 4 miles into the Korinthos canal.
The waiting time was just 15 min. after arranging all the papers and we crossed the canal around 14:00.
Just outside the canal , we felt the force 8 , and turned into the Korinthos port . the port is a deserted port , used rarely by small cargo ships and we were the only yacht there .
The port is completely open to the North , and the feeling is a bit choppy inside . Anchoring took us about 30 min. until we fixed all the ropes but the anchor has a good holding and it's quiet a safe anchoring inside.
Getting ready for an exciting dinner with tons of fish in our rocky shelter.
More soon...
As usual, you can see all the pictures from the past two weeks (including new ones from today) in our web album
Around 17:00 we left Poros on our way to spend the night in one of the bays around Angistri. We motored out the Poros canal and started our preparation for a nice short 15 miles of sailing in 20-25 Knots of wind. The moment the mainsail went up we noticed that there's a problem! One of the mainsail batten pocket stitches had at least a 1M long opening!
We had to take the mainsail down immediately.
We motored around 4 Knots of speed against the 25 Kn wind and just 10 min before sunset we anchored in a beautiful bay on the south side of Angistri.
This morning, we started the day by patching the batten pocket. We put a 1m sticker over the batten, hoping it will hold. We haven't tried it yet. No doubt, the windy hell under Amorgos did not spare our sails.
after a short swim, we started our way towards the Korinthos canal.
The sea was calm and the Meletemi started slowly to pick up . we decided to do some fishing again.
And this time we got a quiet big one! Another 10Kg tuna!!
Just when we finished to clean the fish , the Meltemi was already picking up and we motored the last 4 miles into the Korinthos canal.
The waiting time was just 15 min. after arranging all the papers and we crossed the canal around 14:00.
Just outside the canal , we felt the force 8 , and turned into the Korinthos port . the port is a deserted port , used rarely by small cargo ships and we were the only yacht there .
The port is completely open to the North , and the feeling is a bit choppy inside . Anchoring took us about 30 min. until we fixed all the ropes but the anchor has a good holding and it's quiet a safe anchoring inside.
Getting ready for an exciting dinner with tons of fish in our rocky shelter.
More soon...
As usual, you can see all the pictures from the past two weeks (including new ones from today) in our web album
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Looks great!
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