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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...