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Time to explore further south so we once more headed down through the Lefkas canal where last years’ dredging has hugely improved the depth and brand new, brightly coloured buoys clearly mark the channel. We spent a couple of days in Vliho Bay from where we were able to visit the excellent chandlers in NidriContinue reading “Lefkas, Kefalonia, Kalamos & Corfu again”

On Saturday evening, 27th May, Bill and Cheryl, our American friends from Montana and California, (their two homes they share their time between) surprised us by arriving early to Gouvia Marina in Corfu and we had to bid a hasty retreat from our neighbour’s boat, AirWaves, where we had been ensconced with Chris and EileenContinue reading “Corfu, Paxos and back to Lefkas”

We landed in Preveza on Wednesday May 10th and on Saturday May 13th we launched Deja Vu from Cleopatra Marina’s boatyard. Those three days were really hard work, firstly removing the winter cover, then preparing the bottom of the boat for antifouling, actually painting on the antifouling and finally polishing the hull. Although exhausted weContinue reading “May in Greece”

We had a taste of hot weather in February this year, with a very pleasant sailing trip in the BVI’s aboard yacht Pipistrelle with our good friends Bob and Elaine. We caught up with them for a week prior to their trans Atlantic trip planned for May. Now back in the cold UK we haveContinue reading “Counting down to the lift in!”

Settled weather at last! We are slowly finding out how things work down here by talking to fellow sailors we are meeting. There are a lot of elderly sailors, many of whom are Brits, who spend long times in each place, often blocking quays and berths for the sailors on a journey and just passingContinue reading “End of September”

One of the excursions we made from Preveza was in the free boat taxi across to Cleopatra Marina where we checked out their facilities and confirmed our lift out arrangements with them. What we saw was quite impressive; well organised marina and boat yard with clean buildings, a well equipped chandlery, a pleasant cafe andContinue reading “Preveza to Meganissi”

Sunday September 4th we returned to Gouvia on Corfu very late at night to find Deja Vu just as we had left her. Joining us for a week were John and Ada Roberts, friends from Farnham, who were looking forward to the plan of sailing with us to Kefalonia. However we had known before weContinue reading “The beginning of September”

I am writing this entry in September in retrospect as somehow events overtook my regular updates and it would be quite an omission to leave out 3 sailing weeks in July. Since we arrived in Corfu, it was clear that rubbish collection was an urgent and mounting problem. Piles of unsavoury rubbish sacks were accumulatingContinue reading “July”

We endured two uncomfortable days of battering from gale force southerlies whilst tied up in the Marina at Brindisi and the long range forecast was still for strong winds. We needed a moderate wind to leave for Corfu, a 115 mile trip that we planned to do in two parts. Firstly 85 miles to theContinue reading “Corfu”

For those of you non sailors who follow our blog, apologies for constant references to the weather, but sailors will understand that this drives our days, our thinking and our plans. The forces of nature are huge and need to be treated with great respect. Life on the boat is very simple and subsistent. WeContinue reading “Italy”