I didn’t post yesterday,
because frankly nothing much happened.
We left Agropoli after 9:30am, somewhat later than we had hoped. The forecast was for very little wind
and for it to be variable. It
turned out just like that. For
most of the morning it was very light and not able to take us along at any
pace. By variable, Richard said
they meant that no matter how we changed direction, the wind would follow so
that it was always on the nose!
After lunch the wind did go around so that we could sail, but as it was
so light all we did was motor sail.
At least we were pretending to be a sailboat!
We thought that for a change we would
anchor out on Monday night. So we
got to Camerota rather late and anchored just outside the harbour. We had hoped to go swimming, but by the
time we got there, the sun had gone and it was a bit cool for that. We had a very nice and peaceful (and
free!) night at anchor, eating aboard.
We never thought about going in to the town. In fact, we haven’t yet blown up our dinghy!
We set off again this morning at about
9:45. We are not going very
far. Again there is no wind. Never really gets above 4 knots and is
usually lower. So Richard never
takes the sail covers off and we just gently motor for the morning. We get to Maratea just at lunch
time. Instead of going into the
harbour right away, we anchor opposite a beach and have a lovely swim around
the boat. The water temperature is
26 degrees C! Then we have lunch
and at about 2:30 enter the harbour.
We cannot find anyone to tell us where to moor – all at lunch or having
their siesta. We motor around this
very small harbour in the hope that as usual someone will come over in a rib or
wave at us from a pontoon to tell us where to go, but nothing happens. We read on one of the pontoons that the
harbour works on VHF channel 74, so I call them up, but get no reply. Richard decides that we will just moor
where there is a space and sort it out later. We spot a lovely new 57 foot Oyster with a Red Ensign on a
fairly empty pontoon and just moor up next to it. The conditions are so benign that Richard is able to jump
off the back and take lines from me, so we get tied up with no assistance. The owner of the Oyster notices us, but
only after we are just about all sorted. He tells us where to go to register, so we go into the
village and find the office. They
are quite happy for us to stay where we are, so that is fine.
The town is very cute. Small and all built into a hill, as
many of these places are. It seems
to be little gem. We will eat out
tonight, as there are a number or restaurants around the harbour.
Back on the boat it is very hot and we
just laze in the cockpit reading the newspaper, etc. There is supposed to be toilets and showers, but when we
looked they were closed and they are not part of the harbour facilities, so the
office couldn’t tell us when they open.
So it is all on the boat again.
We have dinner in a restaurant
overlooking the harbour. Very
pretty. The food is OK. Now back on board and planning our next
destination. We think it will be a
long day for the next two days.
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