24 to 28 Aug – Michelle and her friend Claire had arrived late Thursday evening to help me sail to Corinth (where Helen would join us after attending a school reunion in Glasgow) and on Friday morning we set off motoring in a flat calm only for the overheating alarm to come on after an hour. Swam under the boat to see if anything blocking the water inlets but all seemed clear; checked inlet pipe and water impellor pump on engine but also clear. So restarted and nursed engine along at low /medium revs and all went ok although it left us concerned about the rest of the journey if we didn’t have enough wind to sail. I’ts about 240M to Corinth and for most of the journey there are no good service facilities. Fortunately the overheating problem didn’t recur – perhaps because we didn’t push the engine too hard or perhaps because whatever had blocked the inlet had been flushed through or dropped away. I do wonder whether with sitting in the marina for a month there is a build up of crustaceans in the inlets but with some use the inlet gets cleared a bit. Anyway we had a fantastic trip with lots of great sailing (top speed over 10 knots in over 30 knots of winds and another lovely day in 10 to 12 knots when we had a great sail with the gennaker set). In addition I had an easy time with Michelle and Claire doing most of the work! We visited Paxos (met Rick from Blue Planet again and had a nice dinner with him and his clients), went through Levkas canal to Meganisi, anchored off Messalongi, moored up again in lovely Trezonia and then in Corinth (just – as harbour very small and nearly full; managed to get onto the quay for the inner small boat harbour but with only 0.3m under our keel and the depth alarm going off continuously and loudly as we came alongside!). Great surprise to be met by Paul and Jackie from Dignity (Rally Portugal) – the Med cruising world is small! Helen also was there waiting.