Mia Hara's voyages: Crew change

We spent Friday night in Pothia, with Becky, Andrew, Charlie and Kai taking the early ferry on Saturday morning to get their Easyjet flight from Kos, after Charlie had had a good breakfast

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Kai was heavily loaded

Lin's brother John arrived on the same ferry, having flown overnight via Athens

and we waved goodbye to Charlie and Kai

We stayed in Pothia for Saturday, to do the washing and for John to recover from a night without sleep, and set off early on Sunday morning on a windy beat to Levitha, where we picked up a mooring in the bay.

We had dinner in the farmhouse taverna - excellent fish for John and Simon - and next morning Simon and John walked up the hill to get a view of the island.

We had planned to go on to Amorgos, but the forecast was for stronger winds on the nose, so instead we headed home to Lakki, speeding along in lumpy seas

where we went into the marina and pigged out in the taverna by the post office. Simon checked the batteries and confirmed that one cell in one battery was stone dead. The ever helpful Vassili in the marina phoned a battery man who promised to deliver a replacement at 9 the next morning. He eventually arrived at 12, so we had lunch before we left Lakki for Agathonisi. The wind was getting up, so we put a reef in and rolled up a bit of genoa, Simon dropping a winch handle overboard - it popped out of the winch, hovered in the gunwhales and teetered over the edge. We had another speedy sail - close reach in a solid force 5, and got to Agathonisi about 6 pm. We had planned to go in a little bay on the South East side of the isaldn, but there was not much room as there were already two boats there and we failed twice to get the anchor through the weed, so we drove round to the main port, Agios Georgios, where we tied up in our favourite spot, with a line back to the rocks.