We had a few days after Sigri to get to Limnos, some 50 miles in a North Northwesterly direction. Of course, the grib files (computer models that show the weather several days out) showed only North ...
Apologies for my tardiness. I’ve been enjoying having Nicki a/k/a the Admiral on the boat so the blog has slipped a bit in priority. We started sailing slowly, exploring with a few nice places on ...
Got here (Mytilene on Lesbos) yesterday on another very light air day. The Meltimi left us a few days ago and now we got light and variable from the South and West. But we’re patient and limit mot ...
After Nisis Makronisi, we had a nice sail to Patmos. It is Meltimi weather currently. That means between 15 and 25 knots from the North or Northwest all the time, even at night. This throws up an a ...
Strenuous day today. We covered 1.3 miles to get to this anchorage. Mainsail was up for 10 minutes. By now, Rieke and Benno have left and it’s me and Papi. He keeps saying it’s granddad and gr ...
Rieke and Benno’s last day was spent on Samos, the “rough cut diamond” of the Eastern Sporades. A beautiful island, very green, high mountains. It took me a while to realize why everything ...
The trouble with these Greek Islands is that there are many of them and it’s hard to decide where to go. There are beautiful bays, Venetian castles, ancient ruins and quaint towns and villages lite ...
A few days ago in Rhodes, my father, my sister Friederike and her husband Benno joined me for a few weeks. A good opportunity to explore Rhodes and that we did. The town is actually very nice becaus ...
Today is the last day of Richie and Siobhan from AYC, who joined me for a short five days in Agios Nikolaos. We just had a great sail from Chalki, a small, picturesque island off the West coast of R ...
Today is the last day of Richie and Siobhan from AYC, who joined me for a short five days in Agios Nikolaos. We just had a great sail from Chalki, a small, picturesque island off the West coast of R ...