Sunday 9th June saw us leaving Sikias and heading 21 miles further north to Ormos Mesopanayia and Nisis (Island) Dhiaporos to meet up with the Meerkats & Dorado (our friends boats). After 2 hours tacking we had to put the engine on, but at least more than half the time was sailing.
There are numerous anchorages around Nisis Dhiaporos and the adjacent coast as you can see from the airphoto picture and chartlet in our Greek Waters Pilot below.
We are anchored in the big bay on the left of the island (top right in the above picture). As you may be able to see it’s over a mile accoss to the mainland (at the shallowing water on the top left of the picture)
This could perhaps prove a challenge for our temperamental, newly fixed, 2 stroke outboard! Again the only hope of provisioning, diesel etc is on the mainland. So off we set, as usual, in a cloud of blue grey fog coming from an engine sounding like it has terminal emphysema.
However we made it
Succesfully ashore and heading for the shopping
We met up with Bob and Andrea also going across to the supermarket.
Unlike the title of Bilbo Baggins’ book “There and Back Again” our engine was having none of the “Back Again” bit, so it was looking like a long row. Thankfully Bob and Andrea took pity on us and towed us back. Turned out to be a dislodged fuel line and fuel had gone .
Captain Chaos
Later that afternoon the usual culprits Wolfgang, Renate and ourselves where invited for drinks on Dorado, Bob and Andreas’ Westerly
Yes it was late and it was messy
