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Kythera to Siracusa, Sicily

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45m luxury ketch-rigged sailing superyacht

Kythera to Siracusa, Sicily

August 29, 2013 | Author admin

Wednesday at 6:30am we departed Kapsali as dawn arrived. Luckily there was a lot less wind than when we docked 3 days earlier, making for an easy departure. Soon after we hoisted the main and staysail and left the lee of the island. Unfortunately the wind direction forced us south of west rather than north of it. This seemed to start the theme for the wind for most of the journey meaning we had to motor sail and even then it was slow going. One bonus of going slow is the fishing. We managed to catch 2 big eye tuna and we lost 3 fish, 2 of which we got to the back of the boat before they spat the hook out. Penny made us lovely seared tuna for dinner last night and we had sushi and sashimi for lunch today. This morning the wind turned to the North and with full main and genoa we were heeled over and making good speed. Unfortunately it only lasted around 6 hours and we are now going slow again with light wind from behind and choppy seas. At one stage this afternoon we had to stop to clear masses of rope caught under the boat. Zayn dived in with a sharp knife and 5 minutes later we were on our way again with a few hundred meters of fishing rope on board. We have had the fishing lines out today but no luck yet. We still have about 3 hours of daylight so fingers crossed.

We will be changing time zones when we arrive in Siracusa tonight, arriving around 8pm Italy summer time. We had hoped to arrive in daylight but the weather has not played the game meaning the 380nm trip will have taken us nearly 40 hours. I normally plan on averaging 10 knots or more but we could not maintain that this time.

That gives us tomorrow to wash the boat, fuel up and re-provision ready for the next guests arriving Saturday. More on that trip later.

JC

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