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On our way again

By Phil
We took advantage of a break in the weather to head for the Eastern Sporades. The omens looked good, a pod of dolphins escorted us for half an hour on our departure from Skyros.

The official forecast was F7 locally F8, but we could see from the GRIBs (localised lies about what the wind might do) that in the afternoon the wind should drop a little and back, giving us a good blast ESE. Here's a picture of Grace in full flight, taken by S/Y Orpheus who were alongside us in Linari.


The GRIBs turned out to be spot on for once. 10 hours and 60NM later we tied up in Psara alongside Orpheus and another yacht that had made the same trip.

We're now at Kardhamila on the top of Khios. With the prevailing northerlies, its downhill all the way to Marmaris.
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