Koufonisia

On our from Naxos SE towards the Dodecanese we passed Koufonisia it looked beautiful but a bit small to spend the next week on and the Pilot book said the bay experienced severe gusts during the Meltemi, so onwards we headed. Admittedly the Pilot book also said that it wasn’t possible to take the channel between the islands that we had just taken to reach the Koufonisia harbour but hey you can’t be right all the time and our Greek chart was quite sure there was plenty of water and space. Sadly once we cleared this island the sea got a lot choppier and the wind picked up so I spent the next 8hours lying on the floor😓 feeling very sorry for myself. We arrived at Levitha, our anchorage, at 9pm in the dark and tried to find a mooring bouy, we gave up and anchored leaving again early to come here to Leros. Levitha also looked good but almost deserted we could hear goats and apparently there was 1taverna, that was who had put in the mooring bouys. Perhaps we will be able to go back for a couple of nights but a week would be too long. Again the journey started well but deteriorated to me lying on the floor feeling queasy🤢 and then just before we arrived the jib catch, at the top, it might be called the leach, broke. We managed to furl the sail roughly to get into the large natural harbour at Lakki on Leros and anchored up. This was Saturday the sail guy is going to come and have a look 👀 tomorrow to let us know the cost of repair, we will also get the sacrificial edge, the UV bit, replaced as it is almost completely gone. We have also replaced the Greek courtesy flag with a new one. Photo of map will help with next post from our quad biking day.Read more