Pighadi
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Steve & Chris
Sat 15 Aug 2009 13:39
39:02.1N
22:58.9E
Saturday 15th August
2009
Slipped moorings
mid-morning as we only had about 15 miles to go to our intended anchorage for
tonight. Very little wind again so we motored there, only to find it
looked like a ship graveyard with rusting hulks everywhere. When we looked
at the pilot book again we realised it did mention a 'boatyard', but it
certainly didn't look like these ships were being worked on!
An anchorage or
a ship graveyard?
Once past them we
found the bay to be very calm, with olive groves and a small beach, and decided
we might turn a blind eye to the rusty hulks, but when Concerto dropped
their anchor they found the bottom to be thick weed, and so we both decided not
to stay here.
We headed back out
and pushed on for Pighadi, just south of the entrance to the Gulf. The
wind picked up the second we left the gulf and conditions were suddenly very
different. We were glad we were heading for a large bay with anchorages
both North and South because the wind didn't seem to know which direction it
wanted to come from.
As we turned into
Ptelou Bay the sea calmed and the wind dropped and stayed in the North, so we
headed for Pighadi on the North side. Concerto got their anchor
down first, and then we dropped ours - three times before it finally bit and
held. By this time it was 1730 and time for a well-earned sundowner, and
as neither we nor June and Geoff could be bothered to lower our ribs,
we had them on our own boats.
Next day we stayed
in Pighadi and decided to spend the time re-commissioning our watermaker.
We hadn't bothered so far this season as water has been easy to come by, if a
little expensive, but we felt the time had come to be more self-reliant as well
as to check its plumbing as we renewed both pumps and hoses last year and had
not yet run them in situ.
As usual, a 5-minute
job took almost all day, but by tea-time we were making our own water with no
leakages (fingers crossed!) In fact we are making more per hour now as the
pumps we have fitted are more efficient than the old ones.
We just had time to
scrub up in time to lower the rib and row across to Concerto for a game
or two of Okey before a delicious supper of June's egg
curry.
We stayed a further
day in Pighadi for two reasons - one was that it was a very nice place and the
other was that Chris pulled a muscle in her back lowering the rib and so
wanted a day to rest it.
Pighadi
anchorage taken from the town
quay
Tonight's dinner?