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 ...
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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 ...
This is probably the nicest town in Crete, at least of those that we have seen. The town is clean, not overly developed and a bit upscale. So much so that we spent Euro 330 for dinner on Christoph a ...
The last few days, we made our way slowly East along the coast, mostly sailing with light winds. Our first stop was an anchorage called “Bali.” Not quite what most people would associate with ...