Long,
long, long day today. Daniel and Annalena are coming down to take
over for Farinas who have to leave us tomorrow. Some miscalculations
saw us being ways a way from a suitable pick up place. We didn't want
both of them to have to drive through another country and the only
way to get to our area was to pass through Bosnia & Herzegovina.
The aim was to get as far as possible, but the wind wasn't really in
our favour. Stefano and me pulled up the anchor early in the morning
and we started chugging around Korcula Island. The rest started
appearing rather fast after the engine was started.
Whilst
motoring along we had breakfast and later in the morning we
sailed/motored around the east tip of Korcula. The channel funnelled
some Northwest wind down against us and on one side of the channel
was an old monastery and a Venetian City. Dad did a weather check and
the wind predictions for the night were more favourable to out cause
of getting to … and picking up our next two guest. So instead of
sailing we moored in the harbour of the city of Korcula to have some
lunch. Luckily someone was there to help us, as we couldn't see the
usual front lines on which to hold us. We backed in ready to get the
ropes secured but he yelled “ancherus” at us. The revelation what
to do was pretty obvious, so Stefano motored out a bit, we dropped
the anchor and then back in again properly. Off the boat we then
explored the quaint little city for a bit before having some lunch in
a restaurant. For myself and some of the others the floor was moving
backwards and sideways, but no one got “land sick”. Lunch was
interesting, as Rhiannon thought that she had ordered some baby squid
to eat on and instead got half a kilo of the adult one. Swapped that
for Caros macaroni and everybody enjoyed lunch.
After
that Dad went back to the boat, Stefano tagged along a while later, I
took a walk around the city (which was over in 15 minutes) and the
girls both went shopping. A short while later we were ready to go and
left Korcula. The wind was blowing pretty strong and after getting
all the sails out we ended up reefing the main to it's lowest
possible one. Once that was completed we zigzagged up the channel,
passing some windsurfers on the way. About halfway up the channel it
was getting very obvious that we would be sailing until to the
morning, so I went down and tried to get some shut eye for later in
the night. Sailing hard on the wind was interesting trying to sleep,
as when you jibe it throws you to the other side of the bed. Managed
to get a bit of sleep here and there and in the end I ended up going
up at about midnight (after five hours sleep) to take over from Dad.
Rhiannon
joined me shortly later and we sailed until the early morning. Best
thing about night shifts, no one sees you eat the biscuits. About an
two hours before arriving in … we had to take the sails in and
switch the motor on as no wind was showing up any more. About 15
minutes before reaching … Rhiannon went down to wake up Dad, but as
it was to early in the morning we carried on to the next marina,
Tucepi. Just before the daylight started showing up Rhiannon
navigated us in to the harbour and after tying up we all (Rhiannon,
Dad and me) dissapeared in to bed pretty fast.
Track
at GPSies.
Time:
20 hours.
Weather:
No/little wind in the morning, strong wind in the channel and
sunshine with clouds.
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