Fiskárdho, Kefalonia

Pyxis
Karen & Richard
Mon 31 Aug 2009 19:46

Monday 31st August – Fiskárdho, Kefalonia

38:27.681N 20:34.555E

 

Last night we sat in the cockpit and watched a thunderstorm in the distance, with lightning lighting up the sky - fortunately it didn’t come our way.

 

We have spent today in Fiskárdho - we have had a quiet day reading, catching up on the internet, and watching the world go by.

 

When we arrived yesterday, although we dropped back squarely to the pontoon with a straight chain, the boat originally two boats to our starboard, a huge 47’ catamaran, hadn’t, and our anchor chain was a short distance over his. We discovered this when our immediate starboard neighbour tried to leave yesterday and found his anchor fouled by him.  Our port side neighbour rowed out in his dinghy and helped them free the anchors and told us that the catamaran had parked in an S shape when it arrived, which we then confirmed by swimming our anchor.  The catamaran had starboard engine problems so didn’t want to go out and reset his hook, instead he pulled himself over alongside us so no one else could go over his chain.  It was not a problem yesterday but this morning he decided to leave, having fixed his engine, and we had decided we were staying.

 

He had already attached a line to the very large motor boat beside him and announced that he would take up his anchor before leaving the berth.  I thought he was mad – how could he do that?  Well, he must have the strongest windless ever.  It had looked buried when Richard swam the anchors yesterday.  But, he simply used his windlass and dragged his anchor underneath our chain and onto his boat and stowed it – no-one could believe it.

 

Anyway he got away fine and we have two new neighbours today – fortunately they both parked reasonably well though we were pleased that the dinghy was at the bow to act as a fender to the 50 footer when it came in.

 

This evening it has got busy again in the harbour and we are having a quiet evening aboard, once again watching the interesting approach to berthing adopted here.