Sunday, November 23, 2014
Memorable trip back - rough first evening (anchored for a few hours in the night at a sheltered island so we could have something to eat and get a few hours good sleep) and also rough on the second day (called in to Santorini for shelter overnight); wonderful passage through the Santorini caldera at dawn; great sail across to the Greece mainland (although wind then died completely as we rounded the Peloponnese and we motored for over 12 hours to Pylos on SW coast). Needed to get water, fuel and some provisions in Pylos and so decided to have lunch as well - but then general consensus was that we should stay for dinner (Pylos is a lovely town). Always hard to get crew out of port! Planned a 0600 start next day only to find starter panel electrics had somehow got scrambled. Incredibly, after calls to Turkey (yard which fitted the new electric panel) and Volvo agents in Athens and 2 other towns, we discovered there was a Volvo engineer who was in next town and could be with us at lunch time. He was and problem solved in less than 20 minutes!
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