It was Mike who couldn’t sleep last night. He was up at 1:30am due to the winds picking up but was able to fall back asleep when they seemed to have let up in the early morning. Around 8am we told ourselves we would sleep for a little bit longer (and even considered staying one more day) but then the winds picked up again. By 9am it was blowing even harder (consistant 20-25 knots) and some rollers started to come in so we decided to make way. The first couple of hours were pretty bumpy with some swell and 20-25 knot winds with gusts up to 35 knots. There were bunch of rollers which were knocking us around and causing books and other odds and ends to go flying off the shelves (yeah, this would not have been fun with Lucca). But once we passed the bridge at Patras the seas were calmer but the wind was still blowing around 20-30 knots right behind us and pushing us along. I even saw our GPS read 8.9knots!
We had thoughts about going to a little town, Missalonghi, but we were making such good time we pressed on to the Ionian. We also decided to forgo the busy harbour on Ithaca and decided to anchor off of Nisas Petalas, an island off the mainland, for the night. We pulled in little before sunset, and it seemed so peaceful and calm after the past couple of days. We went for a swim, made some dinner and were in bed (the v-berth is now our new bedroom) at 7pm where we enjoyed to breeze while reading and drinking some cinnamon wine from Galaxidi. And I finally found some time to look through our pilot book and Lonely Planet to read up about the Ionian and some of the places where we may want to go. There are so many amazing places to see and it is too bad that we have to race through it. But we need to spend several days to a week in either Lefkada or Corfu to have some work done on our main sail along with some other things that have popped up. And we want to leave Corfu around the first of September to give ourselves about 10 days to get to the west coast of Italy where we will me meeting up with Mike’s dad and step-mother. But all of that later, right now it is just enjoying our cozy and relaxing evening as we are GENTLY being rocked by the water and curling up under a sheet and a thin blanket. Heaven.
We had thoughts about going to a little town, Missalonghi, but we were making such good time we pressed on to the Ionian. We also decided to forgo the busy harbour on Ithaca and decided to anchor off of Nisas Petalas, an island off the mainland, for the night. We pulled in little before sunset, and it seemed so peaceful and calm after the past couple of days. We went for a swim, made some dinner and were in bed (the v-berth is now our new bedroom) at 7pm where we enjoyed to breeze while reading and drinking some cinnamon wine from Galaxidi. And I finally found some time to look through our pilot book and Lonely Planet to read up about the Ionian and some of the places where we may want to go. There are so many amazing places to see and it is too bad that we have to race through it. But we need to spend several days to a week in either Lefkada or Corfu to have some work done on our main sail along with some other things that have popped up. And we want to leave Corfu around the first of September to give ourselves about 10 days to get to the west coast of Italy where we will me meeting up with Mike’s dad and step-mother. But all of that later, right now it is just enjoying our cozy and relaxing evening as we are GENTLY being rocked by the water and curling up under a sheet and a thin blanket. Heaven.
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