Things nautical moving on a pace...

Storm damage to the Sailing Holidays pontoon.

The weather has been a tad weird this week on the island.  The great weather we had been having broke last weekend and we had a couple of quite vicious storms.  The one at breakfast time on Monday morning physically moved the pontoon we are moored to and also did some damage to other boats and pontoons in the Nidri bay area.  One of the sailing holiday's guys recorded winds of over eighty knots (92 MPH!) other than the pontoon itself no harm came any of the boats in the two flotillas moored there.   Tuesday was a little better although always had the promise of more rain to come and sure enough around four o'clock another storm passed across, not quite so severe but none the less angry.  However, the sun has got his proverbial hat on again and the temperatures are touching thirty degrees once more.

Name added but not official until Saturday.

We have more or less finished getting the boat ready for her renaming on Saturday, her new name has been applied along with her registration number and the flag positions altered to show she's a British ship rather than a Greek one.  We have had the quote for the saloon enclosure and rear gantry and the people have all been down to measure her.  Next week we are taking her to Nidri for while to make it easier for the steel fitter and canvas people to work on her.

We went out to the Katoghi last night for a well earned meal out.  Alison and Peter kindly gave us an ice making machine to go on the boat which we tried today and it works, so at least we'll be able to have ice with our G&T's darling darling....