Who put a fiver in the wind meter?

So since Graham left us the Meltemi has turned itself back on. The forecast is now F7 locally gale 8, very different to the week when Graham was here. We are currently making the hop over from the western side of the Aegean to the eastern side, which means going across 40 miles of open sea. Therefore we are taking a weekend break in Skiros and are planning to make a dash for it on Tuesday, when there seems to be a small decrease in the wind. So in the mean time we are going to get the bikes out and cycle up to the Chora, 10km away, and then on to have a bit of a poke around and see what trouble we can get ourselves into.

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Launch Day!

Yesterday Grace got wet. Four boats went in yesterday: Cloud 9, Iona, Gabriella, and Grace of Lefkas. All were launched using a traditional method involving smoking, hammers, occasional shouting, and impressive skill. Kyriakos, who runs the operation, knows the dimensions of all the boats in his yard and adjusts the launch sledge by eye. Launch Day! Considering the amount of standing around, it was an exciting and exhausting day.

The drainage in the lower field

What could you do with three cans of green gunk, a tub of Vaseline, gaffer tape, some cling film, bin bags, cardboard, and a power drill? We insulated our fridge. Right now, it looks like a Complete Bloody Mess. Today we learned that Bavaria insulate the sides and the bottoms of the fridge boxes with similar polyurethane gunk. Who'd have thought? Of course, we'd removed the compressor and drilled a couple of holes before we discovered this. Anyway, we're now convinced that the heat mostly was escaping through the wafer-thin top of the fridge, which makes sense as there's often sunlight directly onto the dark work surface. Tomorrow, Sara will attack the gunk with a bread knife and some sandpaper and it should come up nicely.

Greek logistics work after all

The new alternator arrived on this morning's first ferry. Look at the shiny-shiny: I had to swap the pulley for one the right size, but otherwise its all fine. - Phil

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