Sailing to Corfu
Jul. 26th, 2007 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylLeft Kotor at around 07:30, heading for Corfu. Not a moment too soon in my view — the gulf was choked with smoke from forest fires elsewhere in Croatia, with terrible visibility, a strong reek of smoke and ash falling from the sky. After clearing the bay at around 10:00, we set course for the Vlorë peninsula. The weather was pretty good, with the initially calm conditions giving way to 25kn of wind from the northwest, and 3-4 metre seas.
The tedium of the afternoon was briefly interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a bat, which flittered around the boat for a few minutes before eventually landing and tucking itself up in a small cranny in the stern rail. We were slightly baffled by its appearence because we were 25 miles off-shore — can bats fly that far? — and it was daylight.
We had spaghetti for supper — mater doing stirling work in the galley, despite the seas. We prepared for the night by switching from sails to engine, setting up a two mile radar watch and, in my case heading to bed early, ready to take the early morning watch.
The tedium of the afternoon was briefly interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a bat, which flittered around the boat for a few minutes before eventually landing and tucking itself up in a small cranny in the stern rail. We were slightly baffled by its appearence because we were 25 miles off-shore — can bats fly that far? — and it was daylight.
We had spaghetti for supper — mater doing stirling work in the galley, despite the seas. We prepared for the night by switching from sails to engine, setting up a two mile radar watch and, in my case heading to bed early, ready to take the early morning watch.
