I’ve hired a car to stave off cabin fever and excessive skin wrinkling (due to too much time spent in the jacuzzi). A morning spent diving to scrub the hull, lunch in sleepy Sitia, (much to the delight of the local restaurant strays whose plaintive feline cries I can never deny), then on to revisit [...]
I’ve been escaping the midday heat by relaxing in the Yarmouth23 jacuzzi and tending my garden. By closing the drainage sea cocks I can fill the pushpit with water and invite friends to splash about all day. All that’s missing is ice for cool drinks. You would have thought that some enterprising individual would have [...]
Between Crete and Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes the winds are Force 7, and having put up with a gale upon my return from Egypt, I was in no mood to relive that sopping experience. My Tiller Pilot ST2000 never recovered from the gale. Despite my patient attempts at electronic resuscitation, the unit stayed unresponsive. Having [...]
I tried and failed to leave Agios Nickolaos and sail to Rhodes. According to the locals in Crete, the Meltemi is a little more persistent this year, making travel by sea somewhat uncomfortable. I thought dry humor was the sole domain of the English. Apparently not! So I guess I shouldn’t feel too bad about [...]
