Plataria to Lakka eventful to say the least

We were pleased to be leaving Plataria but on another occasion we probably would have enjoyed it more. 
We have been to Lakka by car when we were moored in bad weather at Gaios but it was cold, closed on that occasion and uninviting but so many sailors had said we just had to go there, and so we decided to follow the advice.
On the 30th May at 11:20 we weighed anchor and headed in nil wind out of the Plataria harbour. The anchor is often full of gunk when it comes up but if you leave it in the water while moving, it self cleans. Just as the anchor came out of the water, it suddenly let itself go and just started paying out with no way of stopping it. 
We were under way at this point, so not a good situation, specially when you have no idea what is happening... poor Sal just looked at me from her chain distribution spot "what the" written all over her body language.
I stopped the engines and went forward to find that the big nut that holds the windlass winch in place was just about fully undone. It takes a winch handle to tighten and there is one right there so problem quickly averted, new lesson learned.
At about 12:30 on glass smooth water with about half way to go we noticed a change in the water up ahead. A squiz through the bino's showed that the water was actually white capping a couple of miles away! We were in nil wind?
We realised that a north easterly was blowing down the western side of Corfu Island and the eastern side had been protected from it to this point. 
Up went the sails before we got to the windy bit and within seconds we went from 8 knots under motor to 8 knots under sail in fairly rough seas coming onto our starboard beam. In a Cat this makes for uncomfortable sailing for the uninitiated. Meaning the kids! It took them a while to settle to it, but it gained in strength to the point we had to reef the main. This means to reduce the size of the mainsail before she became overpowered.
Inelegant would be one word that comes to mind when describing our first attempt at reefing on the Summer Amy...
It would have been better to furl the headsail before we turned into the wind... it wouldn't have flapped so with lines flying everywhere.
It would have been better to have kept the boat on course into the wind while bringing down the main to the point of the first reefing line, rather than going around in a circle as the main filled, the headsail filled and we had to start all over again... Another lesson learned!
Once we got the reef in and back on course, still doing 8 knots under reduced sail in a good 25knot blow, we had time to recap and have a bit of a laugh at ourselves. I do take full responsibility however, because I have reefed before, Sal hasn't, I don't think and well, I'm the Captain....
We arrived at Lakka Bay at 1:40, started the engines, furled the heady and dropped the main and at that moment, we lost all of our instruments! 
Blank screens are not a good look when entering a bay through a narrow opening specially when you now have nothing to tell you how much space there is between the bottom of your boat and the bottom of the bay and specially when you have no idea, once again, what could have caused this sphincter puckerer.
Luckily there were a few yachts at anchor across the bay. Yachts have keels so they need deeper water. Go where they are and we are reasonably safe and so we anchored among them while we figured out what had happened. I won't bore you with the painstaking search for the gremlin but it turned out to be an ill fitting fuse under the bed in the Guest bedroom.... Another lesson learned.... enough already for one day!
I'll give you one photo here of Lakka Bay, this place deserves a blog all of its own!

Heaven by any other name.