Crest Hawk Adventure: Onwards and Southwards

Camping it on Angistri

We are now essentially regulars in Piraeus thanks to Parcel2go and their special super slow delivery service. While waiting on Crest Hawk's new old sail to arrive we made our home at the Athens beach. Bastie and I watched the most famous singer out of Crete. He was very good and we found a couple of locals girls to show us how to dance (or was it the other way round?). Having been carried onto the stage by his roadies he was miraculously inspired by the energy in his own vocal performance to rise to his feet for the final two tracks.

Jonnie's infamous 'Spinach
& Potato Royale'

Basty with pipe

So by Thursday we had all given up on parcel2go and on Friday morning set sail for a weekend trip to Aigina town on Aigina island. After successfully docking we made our way into town where we wrangled as much free pistachio derived food and drink as we could at a Pistachio festival there. Jonnie found a big frying pan on the dock which would come in handy for the next couple of nights.

The next morning we made way for Moni, an even smaller island near Aigina. We parked Crest Hawk in a tiny cove, lashed her to some sturdy looking rooks and set up camp in the surrounding woods. Apart from native peacocks and two stags we were alone for the night. Jonnie had been hyping up a meal of his own design which, once he'd cooked it on our open fire using the pan he'd obtained, turned out to be a great feed.

Basty sailng init

Miss Martin

On Angistri Island for the third day, we set up camp and found a lake where Jonnie and Gez set up fishing nets they had found on the beach by Crest Hawk. After two helpings of rice tomato & cabbage curry, jacket potatoes and more cabbage we were still not satisfied but unfortunately the nets caught nothing!

Gez is growing his beard and it's coming along well.

Sub 2 points off the starboard aft

Since Bastie went AWOL, Jonnie, Jez and I have begun sailing south. Three days with little wind in the wrong direction have made progress slow but we hope to be in Pylos by Saturday afternoon.

Ben's Best Bit: "Crest Hawk's new sail finally arriving!"