After a quick trip to the supermarket with the parrot (I was dissappointed to learn it did not say “buy one get one free” in greek). We headed around the corner to refuge bay. There was no wind forecast for the morning so we planned to hang out here and snorkel.. Below you can see a load of fish taking a surprising interest in Knight Odyssey’s and Knight Star’s keels….

We had about 15 miles to do to Gaios on Paxos. We motored for an hour while we had lunch and then the wind picked up as Paxos appeared ahead out of the mist. Off with the engine and up with the sails and an afternoon fiddling with bits of rope trying to go 2.8 knots instead of 2.7 ensued. The wind direction came around in our favour and we hoisted the cruising chute in place of the genoa. More fiddling with rope and pulling of beards got us 2.9 knots….

Rather difficult to photograph your own sails…….

Gaios is a great place. On the map above we are the red triangle. Tucked in right behind the islands. All the crews on our flotilla went to eat together this evening. The season is almost over so most of the items on the menu were off, and we drank them out of local beer… but they still had Heiniken, so disaster was avoided.