]> http://www.aboutlife.com/mwright en http://www.aboutlife.com/mwright/reflections_in_greece &nbsp;&nbsp; After Focus, it was a pleasant change to go sailing in Greece!&nbsp; The Southern Ionian has wonderful clear, deep, blue water and offers very gentlemanly sailing- referring to the 9.25 knots we reached.&nbsp; 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!&nbsp; The biggest challenge is operating the electric anchor windlass.&nbsp; You only have one chance reversing at speed into a stern-to mooring in front of a watchful crowd on the harbour wall.&nbsp; You time the anchor drop off, in 10-15 meters of water,&nbsp;4 boat lengths in advance and stop a yard short of the quay, with port and starboard aft moorings quickly cleated off!&nbsp; You then haul in the anchor to take the tension. At Vasiliki, on the island of<strong> Levkas</strong>, I so nearly lost two fingers in&nbsp;the chain&nbsp;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!). News Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:31:04 -0700 http://www.aboutlife.com/mwright/testing testing News Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:40:12 -0700