We arrived in Nea Artaki at lunchtime and as hoped most of the craft passing through Chalkis had moved on.
We anchored in what hopefully was the lee of the fishing wharf. It was hard to get further in to our usual spot as a grey Russian “battle cat” that I nicknamed “Putin’s Yacht” had pride of place. We were only here for one night so this would do.
Nea Artaki anchorage & “Putin’s yacht”
Thursday 27th June 2024
Louise each time we have been to this area has always wanted to visit Limni. It’s a small harbour roughly 22 NM from Nea Artaki . It’s usually full and so difficult to get a space but we thought we would try this year.
We set off under sail at 10:30. It was great sailing but unfortunately not ideal for Limni today as one tack was just about east /west and our northering was slow and minimal. I see from the log we altered course for Melouna Waypoint 2 at 15:00 instead,
Now heading for Melouna
We arrived at 17:00 to a very calm bay.
Melouna
It’s a beautiful place but the last night we spent here nearly saw us on the beach in the morning with a wind shift, but this time would be OK ? Yes ? Surely ?
Bloody Melouna! – an onshore wind & swell started building and at 21:00 & we decided we needed to move, not ideal after six and a half hours sailing, an albeit enjoyable day. We were tired, but needs must & we headed off to hopefully what we thought would be a safe anchorage on the Greek mainland,called Ormos Theologica.
Navily warns of many pots on approach. So our arrival at after midnight saw Louise up the front with a torch trying to spot them. As it turns out it wasn’t too bad and the anchorage very good. just after Waypoint 4
We only have one picture of us leaving in the morning and we did not go ashore as we had spent the time having a lie in !
Leaving Ormos Theologis , thanks for the quiet night
