We picked up anchor at Lakka before 09:00 and headed south to Antipaxos to try and get a good spot to anchor. We were in a bit of a race with about 50 other boats so Marina put the pedal down and charged south at 8 knots easily besting the speed of our rivals. One got so discouraged he changed course to Pargas -- I guess unwilling to show his face after such a drubbing. We then slowed down, turned on the fridge and motored into Antipaxos. The previous day we watched a 34 foot Tiara go drifting through the fleet with its anchor bobbing along the bottom, barely missing two boats as its owner nearly had a coronary swimming to catch up. This made me wary plus the wind and wave action at Antipaxos is such that an unattended boat is a bit of a worry. We parked behind a power-cat and beside another Beneteau 50 with a pretty new blue paint job called Blue Phoenix. I wonder whether they rescued a beat up old boat ... therefore the name Phoenix. At times we got within 10 feet of either boat so I stayed on board and wrote some emails while Marina, Jessie and Hugh went ashore and played on the beach and walked the steps to the restaurant to catch the spectacular view.
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| Beach fun! |
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| Marina and Hugh playing paddle "tennis" |
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| Jessie and Hugh on the beach at Antipaxos |
We packed up around 13:00 and headed north to Muertos thinking that it would be an easier jumping off point to Corfu than Lakka. It shaves about 8 miles off of a trip that is usually an upwind journey. We pulled into the channel and anchored a little left of the bay in about 7 meters of water.
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| Jessie gave Matt a cut and Hugh a trim. |
Once we felt the boat was well settled we piled into the dinghy for a ride to beach area & the engine conked out, followed by a spat between Jess and me that ended in her jumping off the dinghy and swimming back toward the boat. We reconciled and I got the engine running and we headed to the Neilson Beach Club where they have yachts, lasers, SUPS and other toys. It might be a good place to go one day. After an hour or two on the beach we headed back and had cocktail hour. The kids went into town for a date night and Marina and I had a quiet night on board the boat.
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| Instead of "I'll pick you up in my brand new Porsche"... |
Jessie and Hugh came back around 00:30 am having spent the same amount on four cocktails as they did for two appetizers, two mains, a pizza for lunch tomorrow and a half litre of wine. A good lesson for these soon-to-be-legal-drinking-age kids as to the hazards of drinking in cocktail bars. Luckily they don't have credit cards to max out.
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| The view from their cocktail bar as the sun went down. |
Anyway, we said our hellos and good-nights in about the same breath so we hit the hay, everyone happy.
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