Our incredible adventure will take us first North then South during our second week. Ward loved his navionics he downloaded onto our iPad....what good is an electric chart in the nav station down below. ...we had lots of paper charts too but this was very comforting to have, especially on our free sail days.
....this was our route over the two week period.



We choose the Dodecanese area to explore this time for more sporty winds. We are used to the consistent trade winds of BVI sailing and found last year in the Peloponnese area of Greece kinda boring sailing frankly .....well we had a few fun sporty days with 25-35 but many other days we could not even raise the sails...

Lots of folks trying to catch some wind






.oh well not complaining ...at least we avoided the dreaded meltimi. The group the previous week spent 3 days in Kos because of 80 knot winds....no thanks . I guess we will have to settle for calm water ....the beer was called Mythos....and it was yummy


stopped and drifted for an incredible swim in the blue blue water of the Aegean. 800 feet below us...so,refreshing . I was nervous so had a line on a life jacket for security ....did not need it. it's so salty a rock could float.



Caught a breeze for a little sail.....




.....then this



Some serious relaxing in order



Ok time to get where we need to be....Porthia Kalymnos...
All secure stern to parking ...awesome job captain



Our lead crew guy Ed welcomes us in ...the boys are thirsty ..



Cool little place



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Went for a nice long walk to stretch and found a great place to swim...

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Awesome group meal and Greek musician to help relax away the evening.

Good morning Porthia ...

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Briefing every morning before departure provides great guidance.
Our destination for the day is a small secluded bay for a raft up

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Had a very relaxing evening eating aboard, star gazing and saving all of the problems of the world with some excellent red wine, then ouzo .

Morning brings a new destination..Lipsi ....nice few hours of sailing and all secure late afternoon for an explore...such a pretty place.

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A cool 24 hour bakery

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Best chocolate ice cream ever!!

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A nice stroll to stretch our lazy ouzo soaked muscles.

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....then a refreshing swim...

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Awesome Greek meal again , red wine in little jugs.....then ouzo night caps aboard. Oh my

Morning brings us to another incredible island...Patmos

Lovely photos Kim.

Sailing in the Med.... Three weeks of dead calm followed by a gale is the usual story. Generally the wind does get up in the afternoon and then quietens down in the evening.

Beautiful pictures!!! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Clapping.gif" alt="" />

Once again beautiful photos, looking forward to Patmos. We had problems with the wind too, either on the nose or none at all; Dan said we burned more fuell in 5 weeks than they did in 10 months on the World ARC

Grazie Kim! Enjoying the reports and of course your beautiful photos!