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A sticky problem

I read with interest the your December 2021 article about diesel bug – it resonated with me as I’d suffered from the dreaded bug in August 2020.

We were heading North to Corfu from Kefalonia on a Bavaria 44. It had been a hard beat into the wind with choppy seas. The sea state was rough and windy, pushing us directly into the bay. Once through the entrance of

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