Baz always likes to say "mission accomplished" and in this episode of Sailing A B Sea we feel as though it really is mission accomplished as we finally find ...

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So as far as we're concerned that is

mission accomplished

Next we're going to hike up the hill and

have a look at the big old castle. Medieval castle. Yeah

It's huge and so is the hill!

Well that anchorage on the

southern side of Lipsi got very busy

overnight and this morning everybody has

upped anchor and left, us included. We are

heading to Liros. There's really not

enough wind for sailing but we have got

the head sail out acting more like a

kite than a wing in the hopes that it

might give us an extra half knot. So

we've got our starboard car as far

forward as possible in the hopes of

giving that some more balloon edge I

guess. It's probably not on the right

term for it and somebody will correct me

for that but as you can see a little bit

of wind we have got isn't really doing

much at all. We'll see how it goes we

might have to bring it back in

After our

partially successful quest for

internet on the Greek island of Lipsi,

we motor sail the short nine miles to

the island of Leros where we dropped

anchor in a Alindas Bay

Ten! Keep going

Not only was Leros our next to planned

island to visit it was also the island

where we hoped that we could find some

sort of final conclusion to our quest

for Internet data, so we took our dinghy

ashore to the main town and eventually

after walking up a big hill we found

what we were looking for.

Well Baz. Had

a win. Yay! We've got 30 gigabytes of

data - yeah - which cost 25 euros. It

lasts for three months - wow - but it is with a provider called Wind. Right. And most of

the big islands have somewhere where you can buy more credit if you need be.

Oh fantastic well done! I'm a happy camper!

Now we can go and have a beer! Yeah.

So as far as we're

concerned that is mission accomplished. Cheers

Next we're gonna hike up the hill and

have a look at the big old castle. Medieval castle.

Yeah it's huge and so is the hill

Why do they always make these steps

just wide enough that you have to do two

steps and you get one leg doing all the lifting work?

Somebody's evil scheme, that's what it is!

You've gotta love the absolute dedication

to detail inside all of these Greek

churches whether they're little teeny

tiny ones or fairly decent-sized ones

like this inside the castle.

Amazing

I'll admit that I'm not the slightest

bit religious in any way shape or form

but I can appreciate the dedication that

some people put into their faith. Wow

Again another amazing feat of

engineering, building an arched roof just

with stone and making it stay there

With our mission to find a good internet

SIM card now complete and our curiosity

about the castle quite sated we upped

anchor and set sail for our next

destination. Well it's just after midday

on Thursday and we are leaving Leros and

heading to the small overnight anchorage

at Levitha which is around around 27-30

nautical miles away. We've got the head

sail out at the moment because we got

the wind right behind us once we get

past the headland here out of the bay

we'll be turning to starboard and that

will probably make a bit of a difference

to which way the sail wants to be so we

might have to tack as soon as we get

out. We'll see what the winds like when

we get out there, hopefully we're going

to get 15 to 20 knots all the way - on the

beam

We've arrived in Levitha or Leveetha

and that took seven hours. Yeah it was a

bit strange, the wind is very very

changeable, one minute we were having a

great sail with 15 knots of wind, doing five

and six and even seven knots of speed

then all of a sudden the wind sort of

picked up to 25 and at one point went

close to thirty but it came from a

different direction and caused the

waves to build up. There was at least two metre waves at one point. Two to three metres. And it's just

very strange for us to to see the

wind to change speed and the waves to go

from fairly calm to 2 or 3 metre waves

all of a sudden but I guess that's the

Mediterranean for you. We'll have to cope with it.

Yeah, specifically the Aegean.

Yeah, but we're here we're actually on a mooring ball

this is a little mooring field, presumably

supplied and maintained by the

restaurant that's just up over the hill

there to the West. This is our

overnight stop for tonight which is

Thursday night and then

Tomorrow we go to Amorgos

All right. You know what time is, I'm saying nothing

I'm saying gin and tonic

Good morning it's just after 6:30 on a

Friday morning and not a cloud in the

sky and there's a slight breeze from the

north and slightly west but of course we

won't know for sure what the wind is

doing until we stick the nose of A B Sea out

there. W we are planning to head further

west today to the island of Amorgos

so it's brekkie time bring, the dinghy up,

close the sea-cocks, close the hatches and

slip the lines

Clear!

I'm gonna pull back

Well that was a mixed bag of jellybeans.

Yeah and not all tasty either.

Coming out of the island

where we just where we had both sails

out, reefed and we achieved a maximum

speed of 7.4 knots under sail!

Yes that was pretty - that was the best

bit really wasn't? It was great I enjoyed

that bit. Yeah. The waves were sort of long rolls

about a metre and a half yeah yeah and

then we had to climb up and around the

northern part of Amorgos island,

yeah that was a bit sketchy because we were

really close hauled to the point that

sometimes I would go try and get a bit

too high on the wind and we'd lose

everything and have to drop off and yeah

yes it was very touch-and-go and at the

last final bit out to the western

tip of the northern part we we just

couldn't climb any higher and we were

going to get the big rock face so we had

to put the engine on and go around the

corner with the engine.

Yeah I mean look I'm thinking purist sailors probably

would have tacked but we're still learning you know

But attack would have

actually taken as backwards. Yeah I know, I

think that's the thing with tacking isn't

yeah. Anyway so that was the decision

that we made yeah. And then coming down the

west coast here of Amorgos island in

Greece we motor sailed. Yeah. Because the

wind was there, then it wasn't there, then it was there, then it wasn't there. So rather than take the

sail in and out we just put the motor on

and that kept us at a steady speed which

was great. About seven knots wasn't it?

Six and a half/seven

Yeah six and a half, seven which was pretty good.

Yeah so we finally got here at 2.40?

It was 2.40 when we arrived and we left at 8 o'clock, yeah five to. Yeah yeah. So here we

are anchored

Pretty little place. It's a very long thin

island and this seems to be the main -

only - main, I'm sure there are tiny little

villages but this is the main one.

Yeah ferries come in here there is a place if

you want to tie back on the dock over

there. I'm not sure what the charge is

we'll find out if we can't find out we'll let you know.

Or if there are any utilities and

utilities I don't know what's included.

So we have put the boat

to bed. Now it's time to find out if we

have a signal for the internet yeah then

you'll find out about this or something

sooner. Yeah all righty. See ya. See ya

Next week on Sailing A B Sea the port police

ask us to move on for anchoring too

close to the ferries and we hire a quad

bike to explore the Greek island of

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