What next? Sivota

After some great coffee and fresh pastries from the cake shop we head off.  It’s a beautiful morning with a fresh breeze.  Once we get away from the town we put up the main and head sail, then the wind drops right off of course.  We drop the head sail until we get further past the land masses then haul it up again.  We are heading Nth to the Sth end of Levkas to meet up with Gill and Tony in Sivota.

Chillin

Ouzo time

After a pleasant time sailing up to Levkas we arrive at a beautiful little village tucked away on the Sth called Sivota (another Gill and Tony special).  It’s really pretty and still very much untouched by tourism.  We find a spot on the wharf and reverse in; a perfect landing.  There’s a small rock bar behind us so we have a few cold beers and watch the view.  Not long after Tony and Gill come in and Greg helps them tie off.  They are both well and winding down their holiday as heading back to the UK in a few days.  While we are catching up a large tripper boat arrives and reverses back beside us.  There are about 150 on board and it stays about 90 mins.  The wind changes and next thing the large boat is leaning on ours and pushing the rest of the yachts.  There are no crew to be seen to so we try to fend off out yacht as best as possible.  Someone finds the Captain and Greg has a few words with him about lifting up his anchor to get the pressure of our yacht.  It all turns to a calamity then as his crew have issues holding the ship and then our neighbours next door start abusing the Caption of the tripper boat and the Captain starts threating them.  It’s on for young and old, meanwhile Greg and I are trying to protect the port side of the yacht from getting ripped off as the boat finally gets away.  Well that was fun!  And to top it off and pommie a few yachts down from us chucks a brown eye at the Greek Captain as he pulls away.  It will make a great sailing tale.

By mid afternoon Sivota harbour is packed with loads for flotilla groups.  The wind has picked up to 20 Kts as very inexperienced people try to reverse in.  Next minute we have two flotilla staff on board using our VHF trying to give instructions to George as he tries to reverse in next to us.  Oh great!  It looks like of the four on board no one has a clue and the forth is busy watching and not bothering to even fend off.  After fouling our anchor and lots of shouting  they arrive without damaging anyone or anything.  We fix the anchor chain and all is well.  A thank you would be nice for assisting but not forthcoming. 

We invite Gill and Tony over for bubbles and have a few laughs and meet up with them after dinner.  We are so buggered  as we still haven’t caught up on lost sleep as yet.  Luckily we do have a good nights sleep here.

Sivtoa harbour

Rock Bar Sivota

We are woken to the sounds of the local priest celebrating mass, a special mass as it’s Sivota’s name day today.  The women of the village have baked special cake to give to everyone and smells delicious.  After a quick breakfast we say farewell to Gill and Tony as they head back home.