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Date: 01 Sep 2011 11:10:07
Title: 37 17.040N 013 31.556N Agregento
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Arrived safely in Agregento to find no finger piers or Yacht Club as in the pilot. There was in fact a pretty nice anchorage within the break water surrounded by all sorts of industry and shipping. We had a great sail 6.5 kts over the ground in about 12 to 16 kts of wind, close reach. The prop feathered and we gained at least 3/4 of a knot under sail... big deal if your sailing a couple of hundred hours. Michael will get spoiled. This gave us plenty of time to patch the exhaust leak which was successfully completed on the third try in time standing on your head healed at 15 degrees. We used the engine again from about 3 AM on after out wind died. Next issue the freshly rebuilt generator raw water pump that I paid 50 Euro to have done seems to have quit after about 2 hours of operation. No water out the tail pipe... maybe an intake problem? Wonder if there is a click and clack for boaters... drip and dunk...

We are still sleeping off the effects of the overnight sail and will launch the dingy shortly and try to find the ruins. Hope they are still here. Hate to find a shopping center where the Greek temple of Apollo was supposed to be. We'll also look for a vodaphone place to re-up our internet but I am not too hopeful after Secericusa. This one will go out satellite. Next stop either Siculiana or Marsalla... hope there is still some veal left when we get there! More later.




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