We were anchored beside a 37 footer that probably hasn't moved in a year or so … a couple of people living aboard pooping every day into the bay spending about 100 Euros a month in the local town … no wonder so many people don’t like long-term cruisers. Marina and I headed into town for some supplies and boat parts. The dinghy has been bleeding air this year so we picked up a patch kit, the oil and antifreeze I need to service the engine and, strangely enough toilet cleaner to see if it will clean the stubborn stains off the deck (and it surprisingly did!). It seemed to take us a very long time and we didn’t make it back to the boat until 11:30 — oh yeah, there was breakfast and a bathroom stop included in there somewhere. We picked up anchor at 11:30 and started a slow power towards Lefkada canal arriving outside the entrance around 13:00. We anchored and had a quick swim and got on our way at 13:10. For future reference 35 minutes would be plenty … we went really slow and still ended up idling into the wind in the queue.
A couple of very urgently-in-a-hurry folks decided to pass us and we leaned on our thousands of sailboat races to deal with the fast-then-slow guy with the … how do you like my anchor in your cockpit? … trick and the guy passing on the outside with … seamanlike rounding means I am not going to put my boat at any risk to let you round outside of me … hehehe …
When we came out of Lefkada we tightened up and son-of-a-gun we were 10 degrees left of the course we needed to hit Pargas. Boo-yeah and we are charging along between 6 and 7 knots. Everybody got some helm time today — although “Otto” kept losing the wind instruments… again.
We only needed to power about 20 minutes when the wind died and then it came up again. So we ended up sailing into Pargas, picked a nice anchorage spot and settled in, had a swim and shower and took the dinghy into town … climbed the hill and went to Romantica with a nice view of the harbour where Hugh treated us to dinner.
We then went into the very busy Saturday night city and even walked up to the Venetian Castle at the top of the hill.
We chose not to grab a night cap at a bar and then headed back to Tara and the mosquitos in our rooms ….
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| Hugh taking us up Levkas Canal |
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| The line up of boats waiting for the bridge to swing. |
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| Jessie at the helm...Matt taking a break. |
We then went into the very busy Saturday night city and even walked up to the Venetian Castle at the top of the hill.
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| Climbing the steps up the castle. |
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| A view of the town waterfront from the top of the castle. |
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| Dragging Bonnie off the beach to take us back to Tara. |
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