An eventful first week as liveaboards. A hasty departure from the quayside in Preveza (due to an overflowing holding tank!) led to a lovely sail up the North...

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So we arrived a week ago and we flew to Preveza. I managed to get a

really good flights. The boat was stern

to on the town quay. Once I arrived I

wasn't really bothered about going

anywhere to be quite honest, I was just..

I'd done that huge massive task of

leaving a country really. We wandered

around a bit and then we had to go and

get a cruising permit so we went to go

find out where to get it and then we

were told that you have to first go to

the bank and you have to go in and pay

50 euros but the bank had a queue of

about 150 people. 387 what number q and then we had to find another

office where you get a form and they fit

in a form I don't even know that office

was and then once you've done all that

then you have to go and find the Coast

Guard office and you go there and then

they need to see your insurance it needs

to be translated into Greek and and they

fit in quite a few forms as well as

probably about ten forms you have to

fill in the process is quite lengthy but

eventually when you get it you have this

paperwork that is supposed to show it

every ports which no one's really asked

for it yet there's quite a few things

that we had to get for the boat just

basic stuff like the baskets to put

inside the huge cupboards so things like

that we bought electric hot plates

does that help ensure power and lots of

other little things like rugs to try and

make it a bit more homely we found some

Chinese shops and various little DIY

pawn shops which have sold all the

little things that we need so I was just

quite happy where we were when we left

the dock for the first time it was quite

a sudden departure because we had to

leave because the tanks basically the

black water tanks were overflowing you

can't just pump it out in the bay so as

soon as we got out to sea we entered the

tanks and my first job

was cleaning the overflowing poo tanks

so our first job is to get away from

that poor because of all the shit

dripping down Bo

when we get far enough out we need to

empty

first

so that was the first job the kids were

feeling a little bit seasick I'd say it

takes a while to get your sea legs it

wasn't really rough luckily so it wasn't

too bad yeah they kind of got on decks

they kind of they were lying down

sleeping a bit and I'm just getting used

to it really adjusting a little one

actually he was quite up for getting

involved in the sailing and so we showed

him how to use the autopilot which we

called Auto and as soon as he works out

how to turn it on and off that's what

you did most the journey was he would

turn it off then he would steer and then

he would turn it back on again and he

loved being in charge of that but

obviously we made sure that we

supervised to him when he did that so

our first trip went fine we got the

sails up it was really lovely and then

we arrived in Parker and we dropped

anchor just that we have to squeeze in a

swim before we leave the kids jumped in

off the side of the boat and we all

enjoy ourselves so much

so we had to leave that Bay because it

was supposed to be the southerly blowing

us on to shore so we left and went to a

bay that was going to be more on the

north of an island but as it happened it

was a lovely baby turns up it's really

nice the kids went in swimming again

but then the weather switched around to

the north and it was quite strong winds

and it will get us to from the bay to

being too rough really to go around to

the other side so we stayed in that

they're both over to our port side they

seem to be whole people right but

they're up on deck as well we've got

very much larger ship over here and

they've tied a shoreline on there quite

steady boat and they seem to be fairly

steady but they have been out putting

extra lines out as well

I suspect everyone's just preparing

merely for the winds to pick up a bit we

were supposed to be southerly which

means this plane would have been ideal

because we'll be dragged off the shore

when - you came around to the north west

so we kind of get both got scale tonight

is a 49 up to 55 miles per hour winds

tide on and we've got that ready to the

launch if we need to

I'm just yeah just sort of assessing the

situation really kids are absolutely

fine they've watched a movie they're

chilling out they're feeling a little

bit ropey they want to go to shore but

we're not going to go to tomorrow

because we feel like we ought to stay

really on the boats anchors been holding

so far the wings do pick up but we we've

got a plan if the anchor does slip so

it's almost none of those things fail we

should be right

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