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   After Focus, it was a pleasant change to go sailing in Greece!  The Southern Ionian has wonderful clear, deep, blue water and offers very gentlemanly sailing- referring to the 9.25 knots we reached.  The heat creates a strong afternoon breeze of force 4-5, which dies down just as one is about to anchor to look for a taverna and a quiet evening in which to enjoy the surrounding beauty!  The biggest challenge is operating the electric anchor windlass.  You only have one chance reversing at speed into a stern-to mooring in front of a watchful crowd on the harbour wall.  You time the anchor drop off, in 10-15 meters of water, 4 boat lengths in advance and stop a yard short of the quay, with port and starboard aft moorings quickly cleated off!  You then haul in the anchor to take the tension. At Vasiliki, on the island of Levkas, I so nearly lost two fingers in the chain drum - one of those occasions when I caught my breath and I just knew in my knower that God was protecting me (from my own folly that is, not the enemy necessarily, though I do sometimes wonder which is worse!).

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