Nesting for Sal

We repeated this process three times before returning a day later in Levkas. We are so very thankful for having Ken and Brian to show us how all of this stuff gets done, without them I have no idea how we would even contemplate our first voyage. Now, with some trepidation, we were actually looking forward to it. 

The Ionian Seas are the safest waters in the Med and I suspect we will be tootling around them for quite a while. The Aegean is a whole ‘nother kettle of fish thanks to the Meltimi winds.

In Levkas, we decided to avoid putting Sally through the heaving process again and so we docked alongside the Marina. The boys recommended I have the windlass, the outboard and the generator serviced so no choice but to be on the marina as one cannot anchor without a windlass. At least we had shore power and tap water….. and an ablution block about 500 meters away.

We enjoyed a last supper with Ken and Brian who we are both looking forward to catching up with sometime down the track. The following morning I drove them to the bus station and bid them a fond and very thankful farewell.

Now it was Sally’s time with the boat. I’m sure you ladies out there can relate to this… us guys not so much. The boat was adequately provisioned. Cutlery, crockery, linen etc, but for the girls, it all belongs to somebody else. I have to say that if it were me and the boys on this jaunt, we would not have changed a thing, but I also agreed with Sally, it just wasn’t us….. none of it and so it all went.

Days of shopping in Levkas, then a two hour drive to IKEA broke the back of it, or should I say the ‘bank’ of it. All that was needed now were the new cushion covers, matching cushions, a sail bag, new helm covers and mooring line bags and we were there, the boat was ours and we are ready to do this thing.