Corfu Sailing

Trip Start May 24, 2005
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Sunday, June 26, 2005

Corfu and Greece weren't originally on our travel plans but the call of the Corfu Sea School - Steve, Tania and Roman - was load and clear: Discover this corner of Greece via the means of transport it was intended - under sail. We pitched up at Camp Site Dyonisus and, after a long afternoon's pool time, we were both thoroughly chilled out (bar a minor episode when Eoghan spotted white insects sticking to every available blade of grass, then our clothes and tent door...)

The days of sailing lessons were full - bits of string pulling on other bits of string - I'm pretty sure this is what Steve called it. The sailing was action packed for the first week: "force 6" winds (24 knots) and running down the swell then to find shelter in the 28 degree warm Ionian waters. Diving off the boat, swimming to shore, cooking a b-b-q in a sandy cove and quaffing wine as Steve's mates regaled us with stories of drunken sailors, before swimming (a little more zig-zaggedly) back to the Mafalda II to sleep. That's the life.
Our comrades were Richard and Ollie from Chester, a dynamic father and son duo with dinghy experience and were pretty chuffed to be on a 39 footer! The sunsets were long and the skies blue - an experience way above expectations.

Now were are "Day Skippers" - let loose on the high seas. (just need to learn how to park)
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