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Corfu and Paxos, May 2008
Corfu - Saiyiada - Ag Stephanos - Kassiopi - Petreti - Gaios - Mongonissi - Lakka - Mourtos - Plateria
January 23, 2010: Plateria bay is interesting as there is something about its shape, coupled with the surounding hills that always seems to give you more wind here than in the surrounding area.Today seems to be an exception as we drift along trying to put off starting the engine for as long as possible.As we get closer to the harbour the radio traffic seems to indicate that there will be four flotillas in tonigh... » read more
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Corfu to Levkada May 2007
Gouvia, Corfu Town, Sayiadha, Petreti, Sivota (North) / Mourtos, Lakka, Gaios, Paleros, Spartachori, Atoko, Kioni, Fiscardo, Abelike Bay, Vathi, Sivota
May 07, 2009: Back Aurelia in for the last time and make fast.Now for the end of trip formalities, packing your gear so that you can tidy up the cabin, cleaning the cooker (but of course you have been doing this all trip so it only needs a wipe over doesn’t it!).Fill out the report for the engineer on what needs to be looked at before she goes out again on Monday… Ten defect lists and about&... » read more
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Grab a Jaguar, October 2007
Sivota (Lefkada), Little Vathi (Meganissi), Kalamos, Vathi, Fiscardo, Sivota (Lefkada)
May 01, 2009: The last day and its back to Sivota to complete our circular tour of the Southern Ionian.Still it has proved that the two of us can do it on our own.The only really annoying thing is that we could have had two weeks for the same price but I have run out of vacation time for this year and couldn’t manage the extra week! » read more
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Faraway Islands & Ionian May 2006
Gouvia - Kassiopi - Ericoussa - Othoni - Mathraki - Palaiokastritsis - Astrakari - Agios Stephanos - Benites - Emerald Bay - Preveza - Menidhion - Vonitsa - Vathi - Fiscardo - S...
17.05.2012: We hitch a ride one seperate boats back to Siviota, where Sailing Holidays have booked us rooms for the final night.Its time for the final night’s group meal and then over to the Yacht Bar until the early hours for those hardened drinkers who can stand the load music.Thirteen days at sea, and ten harbours that I hadn’t visited before even with all my previous Ionian trips.There are ... » Mehr...
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Ionian to the Aegean May 2009
Preveza, Sparchahori, Fiscardo, Poros, Mesolonghi, Nevpaktos, Galaxadi, Kiaton, Corinth Canal, Aigina, Methana, Nisos Poros
March 14, 2010: Back into our berth at Poros and that is it for this trip for me.All I have to do now is work out how to get back to Preveza to pick up my flight home. The boatyard owner suggest that instead of getting the Flying Dolphin to Piraeus, across Athens to the Coach Station, and a coach from there, it might be easier to get a bus to Corinth and pick up the coach when it stops at Corint... » read more
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Idling in the Ionian on IDA, May 2010
Sivota - Spartachori - Kioni - Frikes - Vathi - Ligia - Parga - Mongonissi - Gaios - Lakka - Mourtos - Sagiadah - Plataria
December 12, 2010: Tonking along under engine, thinking can we stay out long enough for the afternoon wind to pick up?Not really we have to be off the boat by 9 am tomorrow and need to pack everything, cram the dinghy back in the locker, and clean the boat so most of that need to be done this afternoon.Coming into Plateria bay there seem to be a lot of boats around but then we know that there are three flotillas ... » read more
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From the Argolic to the Saronic, Sept 2010
In Greece, from the Argolic Gulf round to the Saronic Gulf. Napvlion, Astros, Vivardi, Tyrou, Plaka, Spetes, Ermioni, Poros, Methena, Aegina, Agistri, Nea Epidavros, Palio Ep...
29.10.2010: Well it is the last day, we have to be off the boat by 09:00 and the coach to the airport is due at 09:15 as we have a two hour journey back to Athens airport.I am up and about far earlier as I catch my final sunrise of the trip….Then there is time to have breakfast and do the final clear-up of the boat before hauling the bags out into the cockpit and passing them across the plank to the ... » Mehr...
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Aegean to Corfu October 2011
Palio Epidavros, Corinth Canal, Corinth, Galaxidi, Trizonia, Messalongi, Frikes, Sparchahori, Parga, Lakka, Sagiada, Gouvia
November 11, 2011: We pulled out of Sagaida, motored out of the harbour and set course for Gouvia.The instructions for today were for all Sailing Holidays’ boats returning to Gouvia to call in at the fuel berth so that their deisel tanks could be topped up.This meant we had to warn the engineers doing the fuelling at the fuel berth that we might well lose our engine when we went to neutral…After leavi... » read more
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The Northern Sporades June 2012
The first Sailing Holiday's Flotilla in the Northern Sporades since 1984. Orei, Gukf of Volos, Skiathos, Skopelos, Alonnisos, Kyra Panayia, Skantzoura
July 08, 2012: Well today is the last day of the flotilla so there is no question of where we are going, we need to get the fleet back to Orei.The wind got up a bit over night and swung around a bit before settling in from a westerly direction, i.e. straight off the beach.OK so that meant that the raft was getting a good bit of shelter from the mainland but out to sea the white horses were dancing.So it was a... » read more
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Back to the Sporades Oct 2012
Orie , Pighadi , Koukanares, Nea Klima, Skopelos, Stenni Vala, Plantis, Stenni Vala, Skantzura, Patitiri, Skopelos, Loutraki. Skiathos, Plantini, Ayai Kiriaki, Orie
November 08, 2012: The morning broke with little wind in Plantis but we were soon receiving a change of paln bradcast from Ben over the VHF.The forecast was for strong southerly winds in the evening and overnight which would make our original planned destination of Peristera Bay a non-starter.So now the plan is to meet up back in Stenni Vala and to have the beach party there.Ok, so that is where we need to get to... » read more
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