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 …
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Chapter One: WE’RE BACK AGAIN We had laid a course from Çeşme, Turkey, to Chios, Greece, and after having completed the Turkish exit formalities we motored out of the harbour at 12.00pm. The going was good all the way, albeit under engine with only a little help from the genoa, and at 1.20pm we moored …
Chapter One: CHANGING CONDITIONS After an uneventful night in Foça we weighed anchor at 8.00am in a Northerly Force 4 and unfurled the genoa. This didn’t last too long, and as we changed course we hoisted the mainsail. Now it was blowing a Force 5-6 from North-North-East, so we put in a reef and kept …