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Today Thira was again the first boat out.  Well it wasnt difficult as we were the only boat from the fleet that went back into Agios Stephanos.

It was a very early start as I wanted to get down to Corfu in time to find out where the fleet were going that night.

So at 07:30 I untied the bowlines and pulled Thira out on her kedge intending to sail away without waking the crew. A neighbouring yacht meant that this wouldn’t quite happen and we started to swing towards her.  Gary woke up when I had to start the engine to motor around them.

A nice early breeze died as we approched Corfu and that was that as far as sailing went until later in the afternoon.

Off NAOK we tried to contact the lead crew on our working channel, only to find that we were in opposition with a cruise liner tied up in Corfu and doing an "Abandon Ship "drill using the same channel to talk to the various parts of the ship.

Well judging from their various reports of crew members not turning up at their muster stations, to say nothing of the number of passengers who obviously didn’t know where to go I hope it was a drill.  Of course if it was a Greek cruise liner the missing crew could have been found easily, just look at the lifeboats motoring away from the ship and that where they would probably be…

Anyway we got in touch off NAOK and foiund that we were only going 2 miles down the coast to Benites.  Little did I realise at this stage that it would take us another four hours to sail down there but that afternoon the Corfu channel decided to simulate the doldrums.

Four hours of drifting later and we started to get calls asking us when we were expecting to arrive. 1 mile off the harbour and the GPS giving an eta 2 hours didn’t seem too good, so it was give up and start the engine again.

To really rub it in just after we secured we heard from anther boat who had stayed out that they had a lovely breeze andd would be in later..