on passage to Parga

Off again
Mark+Barbara
Wed 11 May 2011 12:38
38:56.889N 20:42.548E
 
Spent a comfortable few days in Preveza and met a nice New Zealend couple who also have a' Lagoon 440 'so a couple of hours were spent over the pros and cons of a 'Lagoon', thankfully we were in agreement to more of the positive sides.
Went ashore in the dinghy to have a drink and watch the sun go down.
 
Monday Morning 9th May
 
Up early, sea calm and light north easterly winds blowing which are quite cold, the anchor came up without any problems although Mark noticed that one of the bolts has disappeared from the bow roller! Mark has a couple of spare bolts so will put them in at the next anchorage.
Cleared the channel and put the sails up.We had a good sail for a couple of hours and then the wind died so on with the motors.
 
On approaching Parga the winds changed to southerlies and as the bay was open to the south we decided to change course and head for somewhere that we knew quite well, Lakka Bay. Here we knew that we would be safe from whatever the weather threw at us and we could have a nice few days or more sorting somethings out on the boat.
The wind picked up quite rapidly and we were able to sail albeit not smoothly for about one hour,then the wind changed yet again and we were hit with wind on the nose and a quatering sea.So we put the sails away and motored the last few miles to our destination of Lakka Bay!.