Practical Boat Owner

Rescue of a holed motor yacht

It was early November and we were returning from a week’s cruising in company with friends in the north Aegean. Various boats and crew had dispersed, leaving me, single-handed on my 30ft Discovery 3000 Ammos, while Andy was sailing his Arpege La Rochelle double-handed with Alan. We had a 20-mile sail back to base in the Gulf of Volos, running before a rapidly building south-westerly breeze.

After threading our way through the channel between the 550m (1,800ft) high Trikeri peninsula and the small island of Paleo

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