Methoni again
Ile Jeudi
Bob and Lin Griffiths
Thu 7 Jul 2011 14:33
Wednesday 7 July 2011
We went ashore to remind ourselves of Methoni which
we remember as a nice little hamlet. I did some internet stuff and
Lin went off to the Dia supermarket. This has also now become a
Carrefour and Lin found 2 butchers. We met again at a cafe for
lunch.
The internet weather forecasts suggest that
Saturday will be best for the passage west to Sardinia or Malta, depending how
things develop en-route. The nearest is Sardinia at 340 ish miles so
that's about 3 or 4 days depending on wind strength and direction.
We returned to the boat and read for a while.
Later we ran the generator to produce some AC so we could run the vacuum
cleaner but the 'genny' soon stopped. The water intake for the
cooling was blocked with weed and the impeller had run dry and was
damaged. The heat alarm switched the genny off automatically. I
cleaned out the water filter and changed the impeller and we were running
again.
Here are some pictures of Methoni when we were last
here on our way east:-
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