High and dry - Kos Marina

Sunday 14 September

Kos Marina 

We wandered into Kos Town with Sue and Andy on Wednesday for coffee, shopping and lunch and spent the afternoon relaxing on the boat before their evening flight home.  We were sorry to wave goodbye to them and had a very quiet evening on the boat.

We spent the next two days catching up with chores and enjoying the sunshine in the afternoon. There is always a lovely breeze here so not too hot in the sun despite it being 30 degrees at least each day.  Saturday is change over day for the charter boat companies at Kos marina and we spent early evening on Friday watching all the yachts come in.  It appeared to be complete chaos and very noisy with the marineros shouting at the skippers, at each other and anyone else who got in the way.  We even heard one of them on his VHF radio shouting Sequel's name a couple of times as we were obviously taking up charter boat space.

On Saturday we were advised that we should be ready to leave for the boat lift at 9.30 a.m. and then we were told the lift people needed another half an hour - but we left our berth and went and hovered nearby the lift while a boat was put back in the water.  We have decided to cut short our trip by about ten days.  This decision being a mutual one - non-contentious - there is not a problem - honestly. Our flight is at 1 p.m. tomorrow - Monday 15.

Getting some help putting the dinghy back on the front deck

Since then we have been doing the usual things that need to be done to pack up the boat.  Half the winter covers are on - we are waiting for it to be cooler later on today to finish putting on the rest - the engines, generator and outboard have all been flushed through with fresh water and the Captain is happily rubbing down and dealing with rust spots on the hull.  I have packed our bags and now at a bit of loose end so thought I would tie up this one.

We are looking forward to being home as usual and the Captain is especially happy as we will be able to visit the Southampton Boat Show which we haven't been able to do for the last four years.  He has a whole list of things he wants to look for and at. We also have lots to look forward to in the next few months starting with the wedding of the year on 27 September - have a little more time to get ready for it now.