A few 'firsts'.
Serafina
Rob & Sarah Bell
Fri 11 Sep 2009 20:10
Friday 11th September
Around 3.00 am it rained! Just a little, but it was real rain and the first
we have had in a very long time. I'd like to say it was welcome, but it
wasn't.
Set out for Kos at 8.45 am having already washed Serafina down and then
found ourselves motoring through a flat calm sea. The first Ionian type flat
sea that we have seen for at least three months.
We then found that for the short crossing, we were about to share a very
small space of water with 5 very large ships heading in various directions
and we were forced to alter our course to make life easier for them all (and
us).
Arrived at Kos Town quay just as most boats were leaving so we had an easy
reverse in and got all sorted out. Had Frenchmen on both sides of us at
first and they both were extremely friendly and helpful. We admired the
stainless steel rope reel on one of their boats and the owner said that he
had bought it in Marmaris and promptly vanished and reappeared later with a
map of Marmaris with the shop marked on it for us to keep. The other needed
to climb his mast and emerged with a self-ascender which is a clever device
that allows him to climb up a rope and go up the mast alone using just one
leg and a set of clamps which he slides up as he goes. (Hinchers - be very
jealous!) But apparently Sarah is not tempted by this contraption.
Tom emerged for the first time today after we had tied up and so had woken
up in a new town, a new country and a new continent.
Sadly by early afternoon, the rain arrived and stayed with us for the rest
of the day and it was very sad watching the trip boats returning with cold
and bedraggled trippers huddled together, who then had to troop off for a
cold ferry trip back to where they had started from. Received emails from
various yachts from all over the Aegean, all reporting heavy rain which is a
little unusual, but it is forecast to get better on Sunday. Poor Tom has
not picked an ideal week to join us.