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Khalkis Bridge

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There is a small road bridge joining Evia to the main land which needs to be passed to proceed up to the Northern Sporades. Having read about it, it all sounded reasonably worrying with talk of 6-7 knots of tide at springs as you pass through the bridge and yachts being left out by the call by the port police and it all having to be done in the dark, as they only open the bridge between 10pm and 4am to avoid disrupting the traffic as much as possible. So we went and paid our dues and were given very clear instructions by the Port Police, who seemed very well organised and told us to expect the call about 2.00am, which would be around slack water.


The whole event passed off pretty much as they said it would. We were prepared early and rigged the boat ready for an along side whilst we still had light. The Port Police called each boat individually to stand by at about 2.30am and then called each boat again individually to proceed through the bridge in turn. We went through, watched by the nightclub on the one side who seemed to stop to watch the event, and moored up along side on the north side.



We were all done and dusted by 3.30am at which point we could not go to bed straight away due to the coffee consumed in the bid to stay awake. In fact I felt the staying awake was the hardest bit, but then I was not helming.
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