How many island is Kincsem visiting this year? The running count stands at 31 inhabited islands as of September 11. You might think why are we visiting so many - aren't they all the same? Not reall ...

After overnight stops in Kythnos and Siros in quiet conditions, we ended up anchored in Ormos Skhinou on Nisos Rinia, an uninhabited island just a couple of miles from the island of Delos, and maybe 5 ...

Our first sail of the second part of the season was a whopping 6 miles, just around the corner to Cape Sounion. This is the second time Kincsem anchored next to the beautiful ancient Apollo temple an ...

First Metaxa in a couple of months, so it’s time for an update. I arrived a couple of days ago and it was RAINING! Well, the next morning saw the typical Greek brilliant sunshine so I was off to t ...

Next after Alonnisos was Skopelos Island, just a couple of hours sail away. We went for the main harbor, called Skopelos. Skopelos is clearly the greenest island we have seen all year. There are se ...

Lina’s first day on the boat had us heading for the island of Efstratios. Again, this was driven by the forecast showing a new bout of the Meltimi, starting relatively benign and ending with gusts ...

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 ...