We departured around 10:30 after returning the car and preparing the
boat. We sailed away by engine but after an hour the wind came. Against us, but
the sea was still rather calm and with a number of tacks we rounded the north
east corner of Peloponnese a few hours later. We got a better wind angle, about
60 degrees and had a wonderful sailing day with speeds around 8 knots until 7-8
pm when the wind started to drop.
We aimed for a small place some 10 nm west Patras. The intention was to
drop anchor outside the beach there but we realized that it would be dark when
we would arrive. So we found some kind of a holiday resort on the way where we
believed we could get a dinner if we dropped the anchor there. This was not a
harbor at all. And it was shallow quite far out from the resort. No other boats
around. The bottom was full of sea weed, not good for anchor. We could not get
a good grip, but the sea was dead calm and the weather forecast promised a very
calm night. So we took the chance and left the boat out there with a lot of
chain out for the anchor and headed to the beach and resort with our dinghy. It
was pitch dark when we reached the grit beach some 500m from our anchored
sailing boat.
We were right, it was a holiday resort mainly for the locals we think.
People looked very surprised when we came from nowhere and asked for food. It
was too late at the resort restaurant, but the waiter could show us a
neighboring outdoor restaurant at the beach. Very simple and plain but with a
lovely grilled fish, a Greek salad and some beers and at very low price and
lots of charm.
We managed to find our way back to boat out there, of course we had the
anchor light switched on so it was not that difficult.
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