Lefkas – SY LouLouDitsi

Our first Solo Voyage

We left Nidri on Thursday morning and motored back up the Lefkas canal, but stopping before the bridge, at Lefkas town. About 2 hours. We had 2 concerns: finding a space on the quay, where most of the spaces are taken up by charter boats that aren’t yet out on charter, as it’s still early … Continue reading

Lazy Lefkas days

Friday and Saturday are somehow both busy and lazy. It’s difficult to know exctly what we were busy with – tidying, some cleaning, making breakfast and lunch, washing up, some more provisioning (gin and ouzo seem to evaporate quickly here and we’re still building up stocks so we have at least a week’s worth of … Continue reading

A Chicken & a Hand-drill

The plan was to leave Lefkas on Sunday. In the morning we would go to the hardware shop for a hand-drill (the electric one is no good unless we’re on shore power) and buy a cooked chicken to give us the basis of a couple of easy meals at anchor. That was the plan … … Continue reading

GPS Reverse Route

We got the chicken, though not the hand drill, which just raised eyebrows wherever we asked. John’s coming round to the idea of a rechargeable one …. So, we left our mooring and I told the GPS plotter to reverse the route again to take us back down to Nidri. “Will we ever manage to … Continue reading

The bustle of Lefkas

Yesterday we left the peace and quiet of Abelike and came up to Lefkas, where again we moored on the town quay. We’re on the NE part of the quay this time and we have a fantastic view up the last stretch of canal to the bridge. By the time we’ve watched the boats start … Continue reading

47 kts of wind

A couple of hours or so ago we were suddenly hit by at least 47 kts of wind, a downpour (actually a sidepour as it was driving from the south) thunder and lightening. All safe and sound, thank goodness. [We’re still on the quay at Lefkas, by the way, more on that in another post.] … Continue reading

Amps, Volts, Sun & Ice

I like ice in my G&T and in ouzo. The batteries disapprove., but blame the solar panel for not providing enough charge, especially on (admittedly rare) cloudy days. The solar panel points out that it’s doing its very best, but is operating solo, is only 100W anyway, and is nearly 15 years old, which is … Continue reading

Goodnight Bucket

If you’ve read earlier posts (Thank you!) you may remember that the storms in Abelike revealed that most of our portholes (opening windows) leak. We were up for trying to fix leaks in one or two, but 10 or 11 . . . ??? It can be notoriously difficult to know just where the leak … Continue reading

Lingering in Lefkas

We came to meet Tim about the batteries. We arranged for the Cockpit Cushions to have their final fittings and have the covers made. We stayed til the weather passed. Then we stayed for Takis of CYS to look at the leaks. Then we heard that Tim was taken into hospital for an emergency appendectomy … Continue reading

Swell for Shopping

It’s time to head north to Corfu for our flight back to UK on Friday 27th. With an unusual spell of southerlies, the most sheltered stop would be Paxos, but I need new bikinis and Flora’s in Parga is the best place for those. The forecast is only for light winds, surely it won’t be … Continue reading