Chapter One: BACK TO GREECE We’d thoroughly enjoyed our exile in Turkey and had a great sail from Datça back to Symi. Outside Gialos port we tried to call the harbour master, but nobody answered the VHF. Peter took us in anyway, and eventually a marinero came to see us as we were hovering around. …
Chapter One: BACK TO THE HISARONU GULF We’d had our fair share of action in Marmaris and were keen to find somewhere quieter again. At 8.40am we weighed anchor and were underway. The wind had blown itself out, so we motored all the way to Çiftlik together with a few “early bird” excursion boats. When …
Chapter One: ON OUR WAY TO MARMARIS After a peaceful night in the very impressive anchorage of Mersincik we were up early, had breakfast, got shipshape and were underway at 7.15am. The South-Westerly wind, Force 3-4, was on the nose, but luckily the waves were not too steep or big as we motored along the …
Chapter One: EARLY DAYS Due to a strict interpretation of Greek law by some zealous bureaucrats we had to interrupt our stay in Greece. We therefore checked out of the country in Symi and headed for Turkey. On a calm day mid-August we arrived in Datça, dropped the anchor into a large patch of sand, …
Chapter One: OFF TO KOS We had enjoyed a pleasant stay in our anchorage at Koufonísi. Now we were awake before sunrise and weighed anchor just before 7.00am. There was no wind to speak of and the sea was like an oil slick, which meant we needed the engine to get going. Then as we …
Chapter One: LEAVING THE SARONIC GULF It was already heating up in hardly a waft as we motored out of the bay of St. George Stenou on the island of Salamis. We found a little bit of wind later on, just enough to motorsail on the genoa, but, alas, it did not last. We didn’t …
Chapter One: SAILING ALONG We had checked out of Lemnos, our favourite Greek island (so far), and were headed towards Evía, reputedly the largest Greek island. Near Skyros we were sailing under the starry sky, interspersed with a few stints of motorsailing which also helped manoeuvring Cordelia out of the way of “bigger boats”. Other …
Chapter One: AROUND MOUDROS As the weather forecast had foretold a change in the wind direction we had motored from one side of Moudros Bay to the other and had dropped our anchor off Nea Koútali. For once, the wind came as forecast, yet started to change direction an hour early at around 11.00pm. Ingrid …
Chapter One: HEADING FOR LEMNOS After some last minute provisioning we prepared Cordelia and at 8.20am we untied the last line and slipped our mooring. We motored out of the harbour, and while Ingrid tidied away the dirty fenders and lines Peter pointed Cordelia along the coast towards the North-East cape at Adrapánon. At last …
THE VOYAGE CONTINUES Cordelia made a voyage that leddown Biscay, round Iberia to the Med,from Gibraltar sailing Eastto North Cyprus at least.One must say, she was brilliant at that. The two people onboard could exploredifferent countries like never before.They enjoyed Greece and Turkeyin waters, both clear and murkywhen they travelled from shore to shore. The …