Foreigners come to stay...

For those who may have doubted it, Lesanda does have sails.

 San and I had a great night in Patras last Friday before picking up Allen and Jean from Araxos airport.  Managed a nice fish restaurant in the evening and we must remember next time to order one meal and not two, far too much food.

Sunrise over Tranquil bay.

A couple of jobs were left to do before we could go sailing including picking up Pete and MeJulie from Igoumentisa.  San and Jean were tasked with that job Whilst Al and I emptied the boat of the bits and bobs which we only use when we are in the marina, like the washing machine and the mains cooker.

Allen, Jean and San in Pano's Nidri.

Big Al on the helm.

 Monday night was a meal out with all our guests at Margarita's.  We had a real laugh with Pete and I think MeJulie perhaps wondered who these strange buggers were.  Thanks guys for a fab night out and not too much to eat and drink.

Tuesday set off with the intention of going to Ithaka and Kefalonia.  Best laid plans.  Kept smelling burning as we went along and finally isolated it to the engine battery.  It was so hot you could not touch it, fearing a fire we had to deal with it immediately.  Left Allen trying to keep us from a lee shore whilst I got it disconnected and moved.  We then found that we power switch to move from engine battery to domestic batteries was stuffed, bugger!

Nice reach in a light wind.

Flagged down a sialing holiday lead boat who came on board to help me shift one of the domestic batteries into the engine becaus without it we could not start the engine and were drinfting close to land but too deep to drop the hook.  They were great.  We then had a stick mainsail and could get it to furl properly so we headed for the Iris hotel pontoon in Nidri where Allen and I spent the next morning getting it working better.  Turns out to be a bit of a shake down run then.

Botanically speaking it's a "lesser spotted Al"

Next day we decided that seeing as iit was nid afternoon and we were having some teething probs we would head for little Vathi on Meganesi.  12 euros to moor and whilst we produced the paperwork we would have a drink two small beers and two glasses of wine another 14 euros.  Today we have motored to Mitikas and on route discovered that the toilet was filling with foul stuff of it's accord.  After a lot of pumping found out the we had a blockage and the holding tank was full - over full to the point of coming out the breather pipe.   Shit - Literally shit shit shit...  In the end I dangled over the side of the dingy and pocked a cable up the pipe which was partially successful.  We then put the dingy inflater up the hole sealed with a rag and forced air through it.  After a few attempt this worked but needless to say I was in great need of a shower.  Can anything else go wrong????