We've left the Cyclades, and crossed "the windiest place in Greece" over to Evia.
There was certainly evidence of wind. Here's a bent generator we saw on our way into the bay in which we spent the night.
Ironically, we motor-sailed across the channel in light winds. On the way we had a brief encounter with some dolphins:
There was a blowy kick in the tail though. The wind got up through the night, F6-7 across us. We'd laid our anchors to place our bows into the swell (a good move), but it did mean we had to stand anchor watches, and are a little groggy today.
During the night, we were amazed by the performance of our lightweight Fortress anchor, expecting it to drag at any time. We've not had the best of experiences with it since we removed the very heavy length of chain from its rode, (there's no point having a 4kg anchor with 30kg of chain). but we chuck it out when we're not expecting much wind and we want to be able to retrieve it simply. Generally, it will hold in sand up to 15-20kts of wind. When we brought it up this morning, we found it had wedged itself under something metal on the bottom. This isn't the first time this has happened - its a disappointing anchor, but an effective grapnel.
There was certainly evidence of wind. Here's a bent generator we saw on our way into the bay in which we spent the night.
Ironically, we motor-sailed across the channel in light winds. On the way we had a brief encounter with some dolphins:
There was a blowy kick in the tail though. The wind got up through the night, F6-7 across us. We'd laid our anchors to place our bows into the swell (a good move), but it did mean we had to stand anchor watches, and are a little groggy today.
During the night, we were amazed by the performance of our lightweight Fortress anchor, expecting it to drag at any time. We've not had the best of experiences with it since we removed the very heavy length of chain from its rode, (there's no point having a 4kg anchor with 30kg of chain). but we chuck it out when we're not expecting much wind and we want to be able to retrieve it simply. Generally, it will hold in sand up to 15-20kts of wind. When we brought it up this morning, we found it had wedged itself under something metal on the bottom. This isn't the first time this has happened - its a disappointing anchor, but an effective grapnel.
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