Sailing Gratitude

Today we arrived at the boat after spending the day getting us and our bags down to Vlicho and to return our car to Nydri. The plan was to drop the bags at the boat and then return the car and then walk back to the boat – about 40 minutes.

We stopped at a beach bar and had coffee, then began our walk. It turns out you can’t get there from here – we had to backtrack about 30 minutes. The road and boardwalk along the coast ends in an area of ship yards and private land that blocks the way along the coast. We were on the way back and Lisa messaged us saying they had all gathered together at the cafe we had just left. Our 40 minutes walk got us nowhere. We spent the next few hours in the cafe getting to know our fellow travellers. At just before 5 we all piled into a taxi van and drove the 10 minutes to the boat – Gratitude – aa 59 foot Fontaine Pajot.

We were upgraded! This will certainly make looking at boats a bit disappointing as it is very luxurious.

Here is a video walk through.

Our crew are Josh and Abigail from Northern Ireland. They are from the same town but didn’t really know each other. This is her 3rd trip. She didn’t really have sailing or cooking experience but she is very good at cooking for us. She made marinated swordfish steaks for dinner.

We didn’t last long after dinner. We all went to bed just after 10. Dinners will be at 8 pm this trip – the Mediterranean way. Catamaran boats don’t rock nearly as much as monohulls but we were still gently rocked to sleep. Too much to drink in the evening and we both had to get up multiple times in the night… sigh.