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  • Day 524

    Giali

    September 21, 2018 in Greece ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    We enjoyed our time in Leros but more high winds were forecast so after taking receipt of our repaired foresail and getting winched up the mast to release the leech line. This is the rope that gets attached to the top of the foresail that because it’s a furling foresail stays at the top usually but comes down when you pull the sail down to store it. We reattached the foresail and headed off, on the recommendation of Sarah and Dennis and because of the wind direction, we headed south travelling down the east coast of Kalymnos and went to the island of Pserimos and the harbour where we lunched, not as pretty as we had expected but there were a lot of people there. We had hoped to anchor here for the night but way too much swell and we couldn’t moor Med style until later when all the trip boats had left the island so instead we anchored off the south coast with a line ashore just us and the local goats, lovely. In the harbour yachts had anchored in the space indicated in the local pilot book only to be almost run over when the large black and yellow trip boats went stern too on the East mole. Next day we skirted the east and south east coast of Kos and anchored on the south coast of Giali, a small island where they mine the local sand from the cliffs, not exactly picturesque but an interesting and sheltered anchorage only 3miles North of our destination.Read more