We’re moving on – goodbye Corfu

Finally we can continue our adventure and hope to reach Cyprus without any major problems. We are very happy when we get into the water, but then we have another problem… The workshop mixed up forward and reverse when assembling the two drives. To fix this would mean that the boat would have to be taken out of the water again, as it is the weekend and there is no lift space available on Monday, we would lose another week. We decide to cope with the situation, although it means that we can only sail at reduced speed, but it saves a lot of diesel and we need between 12 and 14 hours for the daily stages instead of 8 hours. There is also a change in the crew. Bernd is now back in cool Germany, but I am very happy that my son Phil has taken time off.
With daytime temperatures of almost 40°C, we finally set sail around noon, steam down the coast of Corfu, then cruise towards the mainland with the destination of Lefkada. But Poseidon sends us his greetings on the way, wind 5-6 and over 2m waves, after 4 hours of mighty exertion we have had enough and head for the port of Preveza. Here we need the help of another 4 strong guys to get our boat to the pier, the wind is so strong. Beautiful marina, appropriately named Cleopatra, good restaurant, but also on the other side techno party until 5 in the morning when we leave here again.