We’re lucky enough to own a Fairline Squadron 65 called Sofia. For the past two years we have based it in Lefkas, Greece and cruised between Corfu in the north and Kefalonia and Ithaca in the south. It is a beautiful part of the world to float around in, with excellent boating weather, lovely bays, good food and great little ports, but it does get very busy in the summer. This means you have to plan ahead, arrive at your destination early and make sure the fenders are down by the time the charter fleets arrive at around 4pm and all hell breaks loose. Last winter I had started to read about the Southern Peloponnese from other boaters’ blogs, which according to their reports was far less crowded, so this year we decided to spend two weeks seeing if it lived up to the hype.
Our journey started in Argostoli on the southern tip of the island of Kefalonia. Although the capital of the island, Argostoli is less glitzy than its better-known cousin Fiskardo. The port itself is certainly less visually seductive with rather brackish-looking water, a half-finished marina and shallow
