After starting out as a new and inexperienced sailor, I have been describing in Sailing Today with Yachts & Yachting how I have gained skills and expertise throughout the thrilling voyages of discovery that my partner, Barry, and I have made around the Mediterranean and Adriatic over the past couple of years.
And, just when I thought I could handle anything the Med could throw at us, we had to cope with Covid, red and amber lists, jabs and double jabs, and a blocked Corinth Canal!
This canal blockage meant the summer’s relatively short sailing trip expanded into an epic adventure. We spent almost three months island-hopping in the Ionian and Aegean seas, and we both completed our longest ever sailing stints.
Throughout the voyage, the captain had to attend to all his duties as CEO via Microsoft Teams, and believed that he was successfully convincing his staff that he was working from home (yeah right, Barry!), despite his calendar not updating to Greek time, which caused him to miss meetings. The holiday backgrounds didn’t help either, but they were better than the kitchen backgrounds of his colleagues. Happily, he achieved the best of both business and sailing worlds.
Sunday 6 June: the alarm pierced the pre-dawn London darkness to make the half-filled flight on easyJet from Gatwick to Preveza, on, our four-year-old Oyster 545, had happily spent the winter at D-Marin under the expert care of Kostas, who looks after several Oyster yachts in Lefkas Marina.
