36:54.992 N 021:41.721 E
01/07/10
21:00
We’ve been sailing all day.
The wind finally went NNW so we have been able to make course at a reasonable
speed. Steve decided to have octopus tonight but wasn’t quite sure what to do,
so he thawed it, nuked it, steamed it and finally grilled it, The result was nearly edible apart from
being rubbery and chewy.
We all getting bored
with sailing to windward.
.
02/07/10
02:00
Still shuntering
along. The wind has gone NW so we’re sailing a bit freer and its not quite so
lumpy.
09:00
The NW wind has held through
the night although it has dropped to
Force 4, At the moment with
around 10 knots of wind we’re making a little over 6 knots. We should be in in
the next 2 ½ hours,
When LED navigation lights
became available I rushed out and bought a set reasoning that while there were
expensive they used very little current and would last for years. Well the LEDs themselves may last for
years but the housings certainly don’t. We’re on our second set of Port and
Starboard units and the
Masthead Tricolour went last
night. We have a conventional
tungsten spare which I bought last time the LED masthead went to tide us over
until I could get a replacement..
So we’ll fit that and maybe not bother with replacing the LED
one.
14:00
The wind kept reducing
until we were doing under 4 knots. Steve and I decided to try our hateful
cruising chute and faffed around with it for a wasted
hour.
The RoloGen system is meant
to make setting and striking the chute really easy, but the system really only
works on smaller boats. The furling
device is also very heavy so dragging the whole thing up front is a real
chore. I’m going to give up on
it and replace it with a
conventional sock.
Distance covered in two days
was 362 miles, we motored the last 9 miles. There was a fuel lorry on the dock so I
took on 124 litres as we hadn’t quite filled up in
Malta.
Apart from the last 1 1.4
hours of motoring there was only 9 hours of generator time.
Formalities were
completed very easily with good humour and no fuss. This is a great place to check in or out
of
Greece.
Tomorrow we will go to
Porto Kayo for an afternoon swim, eat on the boat and then set off overnight for
Spetses.
