Sat 15th June 2024
Having left Karystos and followed a long tack to clear the bottom of Evia then heading north to Nisios Khersonison, we are now at anchor in the lovely little archipelago of Nisidhes Petaloi consisting of a group of islands some of which are privately owned. It’s a paradise !
The island we are currently anchored off, Nisos Xero, was sold by the King of Greece to Maris Empeirikos, a shipping magnate.
Navily (a sailing peer guide to anchorages) describes in one post – “it’s populated by a wild woman with even wilder dogs that she threatens to let loose if she finds anyone ashore and follows them back down to their dinghy with a stream of invectives.”
From her extensive wiki studies, my assistant thinks she is married to one of the Empeirikos’s above, and there is some evidence therein of her visiting the beach with security to chase bathers away.
We did have sight of a woman and a dog last night, but she didn’t seem overly perturbed as she passed a small Greek rib, with a wee fat naked man displaying all, anchored only yards away from where she was walking.
There was a similar display further out later on a Scottish yacht but he wisnae Greek.
However as I write this, breaking news, I have just videoed some Greek guys getting the treatment from whom we think is Maria and wow ! she is mad !!
Anyway I digress, the blog:
Attached are our passages since 15th April & the start of this year’s blog
and just in case the cat’s cradle is confusing:
Just shy of 400 nautical miles so far.
1. Samos 2. Ikaria 3. Mykonos 4. Siros 5. Kithnos 6. Siros 7. Paros, Naoussa 8. Paros, Paroika 9. Nisos Despotiko south 10. Naxos 11. Nisos Despotiko / Anti Paros 12. Siros 13. Andros 14. Karistos, Evia 15. Nisidhes Petaloi, Xero – Of mad wummin fame!
