Our apparent is 18 knots and I know that's not a lot for you seasoned sailors but
for us noobs it's it's a bit of a circus - not circus ride - a fairground ride
Specially when the big waves come past us!
Oh that was a bit of a wild ride! Our true wind is 20 knots at the
moment
Our apparent is 18 knots and I know that's not a lot for you seasoned sailors but
for us noobs it's it's a bit of a circus - not circus ride - a fairground ride
especially when the big waves come past us so we're just about to have breakfast
Yeah we're having breakfast. Actually the waves remind me a bit of when we were
learning in Gibraltar but we don't have an instructor with us so you know
So we're strapped on and we're eating and we're getting there. And we're going
over there past that island to Ios.
*Aannsha giggles*
So prognosis Captain?
I'll have to read the instruction manual
to get the tell tails doing tha. Anyway we're still we're still going where we
want to go, we're still moving forward, we haven't got the engine on, so sit back,
relax and be happy.
I can do that
You may have just heard me mention that the
AIS had gone off, so I think this is a good opportunity for me to give a short
explanation as to how we use AIS on board A B Sea. Out there on the horizon you
can see a big cargo ship and it's definitely headed in our direction.
Now all these commercial vessels have to have an AIS transponder. Not all yachts
have to have an AIS transceiver. We are very lucky to have one on board though,
because if we take a look at the AIS information from this guy we can see
that he is 689 feet long, so he's a big boy, and in about nine minutes time he
will pass in front of us just under one nautical mile away. I can also see from
looking at the information on the right-hand side of the screen in the
middle there that he is heading to Valencia in Spain - you can see ES for
Spain and VLC for Valencia so it's based on the same thing as the three-letter
code that you have for the various airports around the world.
And that's what he now looks like passing just under one nautical mile in front of us.
Well we made it to Ios. It was an interesting trip. It was a big trip and the
anchoring was also a story so I'll let Baz tell you . Yeah so we were expecting
we were expecting 20 knots maximum 25 from behind but pretty much all the way it
was on the beam. That was okay just a head sail out, we were
doing good, and then just as we came around the the northern corner of Ios
the wind picked up to 30 knots just like instantly boom and the waves and this
this sort of like the waves were getting confused sort of like the waves were going one
way and the wind was blowing the other way, so that got a bit bouncy. It took a
while to, once we got outside this port here, it took a while to get that head
sail furled away in 30 knots of wind I'll tell you. And then when we came into
here we waited for Mike to come in and drop his anchor and help us out because
Aannsha's still incapacitated with her broken wrist. So he comes in first and
then we we have them grab our lines and we usually pull up alongside them. Stern to
Stern to of course, yeah, but it's still blowing 30 knots of wind and I've
watched Mike. Now Mike is the 20 year sailing veteran. I watched him try and
get his anchor in six times - it finally went in and I said to Mike I said look
I've watched you do that six times, there's no way I'm coming in there. It
says on my chart that this is an anchorage. We'll drop our big Mantus and
wait it out it's not a problem for us. So we did, we went as far because there's big
ferries coming in here - two big ones while we were circling around around - so we
went over the far side as much as we can we're in about seven meters of water where
ferries probably wouldn't go. And then the port police come along on the
shoulder in a little shiny car with you know big blue flashing lights and *honk honk*. So obviously they thought
we were too close for the ferries. Now luckily Mike spoke to one of the blokes
here on the side on the key side and we're now tied up side on in the in the
emergency zone because Aannsha's got a broken wrist. I know I was
so grateful I was so grateful and I nearly cried - been doing a lot of that lately - so we're here for two
nights because the wind's still going to stay up tomorrow and we ain't going out
in that. So the bloke charged us 21 Euros you know and we gave him 25
Euros for helping us out.
So we're here. So what an adventure that was! We did it on our own! We did!
Just the 2 of us! In the boat. Well done. So now I'm gonna have a beer and I'm gonna have a big
wine. Oh! We're in er, oh we did say we're in Ios, yes, the Greek island of Ios.
One of the Cyclades. Yeah in the Aegean. We might take a look around tomorrow 'cause
we're here tonight and tomorrow night. Yeah I think that would be really good. Yeah. I
think we need to stop now. Yeah. You look knackered. I am knackered! It's mentally tiring
It is so mentally tiring. Yeah.
Well we just jumped on the bus and the place that we wanted to get off
apparently was just two kilometers away from the port where we're staying and we
didn't think that was it when we got there because it happened so quickly
and so we decided to get off here. It pretty much looks like everywhere is closed
closed down for the winter - there's just a few handful of people around - Ooh there's a bar - that may
be open but it would have been a great place to drop anchor. Yeah
and dinghy ashore, so we're gonna find a bar, have a beer
regroup, find out what time the bus takes us back to the place where we should
have got off and take it from there.
Reminds me of a Chris De Burgh song with
the lyrics "an out of season holiday town in the rain". It's not raining but
it's definitely an out of season holiday town but there's gotta be a bar open
All the locals need a beer
So after a day trip out we've finally stopped for lunch
back in the port andbelieve it or not, Aannsha's not yet had a Greek salad while we've been in Greece so
today she is. Yum!
And I am having lamb souvlaka
with chips or french fries whichever you like to call them. Potatoes potatoes
It's 10 past 7:00 on Monday the 8th of October and at the moment we're doing
big circles in Ios Bay. Why? We're waiting for Mira to leave their mooring and
then both of us are going to make about a 10 hour journey to Astypalaia which
is the most Western island of the Dodecanese islands in Greece as we make
our way to Turkey. It's all a bit exciting. We've looked at Windy today
and it seems as if we're going to get very light winds for most of the way
it might increase a little bit towards the end of our journey but that will also
give us fairly calm seas. It is the Aegean I know, might not happen but that's what
Windy's predicting so after our last passage where we had sort of 25-knot
winds increasing to 30-knot winds for the last half hour a calm passage would be
lovely. Although it would be nice to get enough wind so that we can put at least
the head sail up. And I can see Mira ll just leaving the harbor and coming up
behind us. So we're off!
The 10-hour trip gave us time to chill out and chat
Here's the helm with the autopilot on duty
Along the way we saw a few boats including this fishing vessel
It was calm enough to make lunch down below. I'd already chopped up salad and
made coleslaw to make my job easier
As we'd hoped for we've got enough wind to sail part of
the way
The approach into the harbor was through a channel which opened out onto a
sheltered bay
After putting out the fenders I tried to tie a bowline one-handed in a mooring line
I'm stubborn so I struggled with it but in the end I
gave it to Baz
Soon after we were rafted alongside Mira ll in our home for the night in
Astypalaia
Our overnight stop tonight is here at this very secluded and isolated little
inland Bay you would just sail straight past it if you didn't know it was here
Mike has been here several times when he's been delivering boats backwards and
forwards across the Mediterranea. Aery small dock, we were rafting up to our
companion boat Mira and just as we were tying off the last line a catamaran
came in so they've rafted up with us
This guy here he's the local restaurant
owner he and his wife run this place he goes out and fishing. He's caught some
really good fish octopus and squid so I guess that's what's on the menu for
dinner tonight. I'm also assured that they do have cold
beer so this this is exactly what I wanted and probably what Aannsha wanted
We're not too not too fussed about you know stern to in a marina and along
harbor walls and stuff like that with all the amenities and and this is the
adventure that we we were searching for, isolated little places where you could
get to meet the locals, go into the what is essentially their home and and eat
and drink with them and be merry, so this is just a brilliant little place. So as
the sun goes down I'm gonna get a fresh battery for this camera I'm gonna get
some good clothes on and we're going to dine
in fine style here tonight
And this is what the octopus looks like after it's been in the kitchen and presented.
Morning Michael - morning sir - Look at you being all health. Greek yogurt in Greece!
I'm having sugar and chocolate. There's everything wrong about that.
The following day after one
of us had a healthy breakfast we untied the lines and headed out of the narrow
channel on our way to Nisyros. Mike had said it may be choppy in the channel
and as we left the bay we discovered just how rough it was going to be
Join us next week on sailing A B Sea as we slam through waves losing our port nav
light cover as we leave Astypalaia for Nisyros and then on to the island
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