Eventful trip
Blue Magic
Mark & Chris Dewey
Mon 10 Sep 2018 15:41
There was little wind and we were expecting a gentle motor 17 miles to the Island if Meganisi.
So you can imagine it was a little disconcerting when the engine revs began to dance about erratically.
A lot of checks insued from the chief engineer and some reversing to see if there was something tangled around the prop.
Nothing amiss it would seem .... until Mark realised that, despite filling two tanks with 1000 ltrs of fuel a few days ago, he was using the third empty tank !
So we sat back and relaxed again, but it wasn’t long before the next drama.
Just inside a fairly narrow channel the chart plotter, showing our position, route and chart, turned off and refused to be revived.
Luckily we have an iPod with GPS and, after finally remembering our passcode, it was giving all the information we needed.
Not to be out done the chart plotter came back to life and has been behaving perfectly ever since !
We hoped to anchor in the bay of Spartahori but it is too deep so we are moored stern to a floating restaurant pontoon.
Dinner out tonight after all !
We climbed the steep steps to the village above for these photos of the bay, Blue Magic mast is bottom right.
Oh and there was a shop, which was lucky as Ashley hadn’t added to his t shirt collection for several hours.