Chapter One: BACK AGAIN We’d spent the last 1½ months in Leros Marina preparing Cordelia for the season. Then, on 20 April at 10.20am, we slipped our mooring and motored out of the marina. We hoisted the mainsail (with 1 reef) inside the bay, and outside we followed it up with the superjib (= the …
Chapter One: PREPARATIONS At the end of October 2025 we had left Cordelia on the hard at Leros Marina, and we did not see her again until 3 March 2026. She was scheduled to stay out of the water until the end of the month for some much needed work, and as we didn’t fancy …
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 …
