Nisos Khios

It was an early start.
We left Samos at 03:00. Khios is 60 miles to the North and an estimated 12 hour passage. It was a downwind sail and a lot of rocking and rolling in the aft cabin when trying to get some sleep  off watch.
In the end we sailed for just under 4 hours until the wind died and had to resort to burning diesel. We arrived at Khios “Marina” just after 15:00. You are not far from Turkey here, and we saw quite a lot of large ships transiting North / South just off the Turkish coast.
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Traffic just off the coast of Turkey
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Approaching Khios
Khios Marina is yet again one of the EU grant jobs i.e. it has been half finished. It has no toilet or showering facilities, water or electricity, but it is free! and there is a good supermarket just 10 minutes away with the town centre another 10 further on. So all in all OK for a few days or 15 in our case.
We initially moored up alongside in a workboat space for a couple of days then moved further in later in the week.
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An early night, after a glass of wine of course, and plans to explore the town the next day.