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In the morning the local fishermen retrieve their nets they set overnight.  The nets are about 1-1.5 meters in height, weighted on the bottom with floats on top.  They are designed to sit on the bottom and catch fish swimming along.  I watched one of the boats retrieve their net starting about 300 meters away.  They slowly worked their way right over to us when it became apparent we had laid our anchor and chain over their net.  Now there is no way to know where these nets are located since the only mark the start on finish.  In this case the nets made a complete zigzag course around the entire bay, probably over a kilometer of net. 

I think they expected that we were on top of their nets from the beginning so they simply cut the net and marked that end with a buoy.  Off they went to the other end of the net and again worked their way back to us.  As I watched they pulled up the cut end of the net along with our anchor.  Not an issue since the winds were light and the chain rode was enough to hold us while they untangled the anchor from the net.  Once done they dropped it and waved goodbye.  Not an issue since I was on the boat.  If we were not the anchor was now in a new position that would have us too close to land if the wind blew.  Not sure if the anchor would have reset on its own.

So at 8:00 AM we decided to move to Itea where we had a spot reserved.  A short trip of 45 minutes.  Berthing had the winds pushing us off the quay but getting a spring line on first assured that I could control the boat along with the bow thruster.

Itea is the closest town to Delphi, the ancient Greek city on the hillside.  Itea has a marina, like many others, was started and never completed.  However the concrete quays are in place along with bollards.  Electrical and water outlet are present but not connected.  There is a deliver guy with a small truck for water and diesel if needed.

The marina is well protected and we decided to stay for four days to allow us to visit Delphi and wait out some strong winds that should end by Friday.  Well protected from waves this is a good place to wait out winds.  In the town of Itea there are plenty of restaurants along the waterfront.  A good SPAR supermarket, several bakeries and one produce market.

Empty marina, not sure it is this empty in July and August but there seems to be plenty of room.

Waterfront cafes

We keep running into Ocean Pearl, one of the ugliest charter boats I know of.  Built as a timeshare boat it rents for over 100,000 Euros per week.  It is based in Corfu I think.  The entire arch over the boat is stairs from the bow to stern.