In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we pass under the world's longest multi-span cable-stayed bridge of the fully suspended type, then pass through the Corint...

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But we're about to - when I say about to -

maybe in a couple of hours, we will be

passing underneath a very large

suspension bridge. It will be dark when

we go under but apparently it's

very well lit up with blue neons and all

the navigation lights that you'd expect.

Just going to grab this before we lose

the light - the Sun has gone down there

behind us in the west - we of course

therefore heading east. You can't see it

with the camera or any one of the

cameras we've got on board but we're

about to - well when I say about to - maybe

in a couple of hours, we will be passing

underneath a very large suspension

bridge. It will be dark when we go under

but apparrently it's very well lit

up with blue neons and all the

navigation lights that you'd expect. So

there is a traffic separation scheme as

you go either way east or west under the

bridge. We will be on the south side of

the bridge because we're heading east

and we have to radio ahead and get

permission to go through and tell them

how tall we are and how long we are and

they'll tell us - yes carry on through the

south side or no there's a big fella

coming through on the south side,

you go through on the northern side.

So then we're sailing through the night

or motoring through the night because

there's absolutely no wind now and we

should by the time the Sun comes up find

ourselves somewhere near to the northern

entrance of the Corinth canal. That'll be

interesting.

That was like being on a rollercoaster ride! I've been holding my breath!

I don't know my stomach has just turned over.

Oh my God!

Woohoo!! We made it !!

Guess where we are!

Corinth canal control, Corinth canal

control, Corinth canal control this is

sailing yacht A B Sea, A B Sea, A B Sea, over.

A B Sea, Corinth canal, good morning.

Good morning sir we are on the western side

and we want to travel east.

Your length overall A B Sea?

14, 1-4 metres.

For the canal use, do you pay cash or any agent?

It will be cash in Euros.

And your distance from canal entrance?

Right now we are three

miles from the entrance.

Okay A B Sea proceed and a half mile before the canal entrance call me back for instructions.

Thank you Control we'll be in touch half a mile

before the entrance. A B Sea out.

We're at the Corinth canal entrance and it's

7:55 in the morning

there are several vessels waiting to go

through including ourselves so we're

just half a mile from the entrance

waiting for some vessels coming out of

the canal to clear the way and then once

that's done we'll be given our orders as

to which order we go through in. So I

don't know. There's a big tug over there towing

something, there's a couple of yachts here and

there's a big vessel over there but I

don't know if he's going throug. The

most expensive canal to traverse in the

world per kilometer or foot or mile. It's

really quite a short canal but very

expensive and we won't know exactly

how much it's going to cost us until we

get to the other end. That's where we tie

up and pay. So if we don't like what

they're charging us we can't just

reverse out and come back!

So we'll just sit here wait until we're

told what to do.

It's been exciting, we're

just just about to enter the Corinth

canal now so check it out!

I hadn't realized how narrow this canal

actually is and the walls have just been

sliced through they're not reinforced

with concrete or anything

We're coming up to a reinforced bit now,

a very low wall on either side

This side is actually reinforced pretty

much halfway up the wall, it's quite a

high section this part.

Where do you want this?

Take that to mid

Thank you. Just the rear line then we're okay.

Yeah. Thank you

Well we just had a very

interesting but uneventful trip through

the Corinth canal. Uneventful in the fact

that it's literally just a straight line

cut through the rock. The biggest concern

for me was the depth of the water and I

think the worst we got on our depth

gauge was six, seven metres. So ahead of

us was a really big cargo ship that was

getting towed through by a tug and I

just figured well if that big fella can

get through then we've got no problem

with our 1.8 metre keel. And as

we come through the canal we came from

north to south or as some people like to

say from west to east. It just depends on

how geographically perfect you want to

be. But either way when we exited the

canal we had to pull over to the

starboard side, there was a big dock

there to pull over and tie up and go

into the office and pay. For our 14 metre

vessel it cost us 249 Euros and I did

say it was the most expensive canal to

traverse for the cost and the distance

involved. It really didn't take that long

to get through it is quite a short canal

and very easy really. You just got a

radio in and follow the instructions.

We are now in the Aegean and things are a bit

different here. It was raining as we

exited. It isn't now obviously as you can

see. So yeah it's turned out nice.

And our chosen destination for tonight's

stopover is Poros which is another

nice Greek island apparently. We will

need to refuel there apparently the

fuel tank comes to where you parked up

along the key side and you fill up that

way and the same I would imagine with

water. I'll be glad to get there it's

been

you know, it's been -

it's not been tiring it's just when you

do do an overnighter you do feel a bit

ropey the next day so it will be nice

to stop. I think we're about two hours

away from stopping and that'll be good.

As we approached Poros, Elaine gave Baz some

really good advice on dropping the

anchor for stern-to mooring. However in

practice it was more tricky and it took

Baz a few attempts before we were

securely tied to the dock, with Mike and

Elaine's help.

This is where when you let the chain out,

keep letting it out but now and again

just stop and if the chain rises like you know it's in and keep letting it out before it goes tight.

People keep letting the chain out and they find out when they've got tied back and they're pulling it up

that the chain's like this and it's not like that

-Yeah- and it's just taking your time

and not panicking and if the weather's like

this it's not too bad, you can think.

Okay I'm gonna go in reverse, I'll give you a shout

Okay go!

Tighten the chain

Is it in?

Up the anchor

Take the anchor up Elaine.

This moves so quick, it's not getting enough time to go down. How many metres have you got underneath you?

eleven

You need to get that down 11 metres before it gets to the bottom.

Okay

After putting the boat to bed we kicked

back, had sundowners and sat on the back

of the boat watching the evening ferry

in Poros.

I've just been up on deck to

see what I can do to help prepare to

cast off and go on up the next leg of

our journey and Baz the captain has very

very clearly told me that he wants me to

rest my arm. And I feel really useless.

I just hate letting him down

because he's already doing so much. It's

not about me wanting to feel heroic

or anything like that it's just that we're

a part of a team and I'm like this

useless part at the moment and all I can

do is the basic stuff and I'm upset

because I can't do anything practical to

help and I know while we're motoring

it's not so bad

and an even with the autopilot and all lines

leading back to the helm that you know

even sailing's not that hard, but it's

just I can't even do the prep. I can't

bring in any fenders

So so just gonna get I just gotta get on

with it as well, like he's been awake

since you know God knows how long

working out what he's gotta do it in what

order and all I could do is just sit here

with a bloody broken arm.

Okay there are some things I can do. I can film what

we're doing and

talk to you so today is

Thursday the 4th of October and we are

now on passage having just left a

beautiful little island

of Poros. We're on passage to Serifos

and that will take us about 10 hours. At

the moment the sun is still rising, the

sea is very calm because there's little

to no wind at all. So obviously we're

going to be motoring to start with. Baz

checked Windy and we may get a little bit

of wind later on this afternoon so we'll

see how that pans out. Windy hasn't always

given us what it's promised - or Nature

hasn't always given us what Windy's

promised.

This morning we left the Greek of Poros and we're now motor sailing towards the Greek island

of Serifos. When we left it was really

really dead calm, dead flat. Now we have

13.6 knots of apparent

wind - it has been up to 17 knots so we do

have the headsail out which is nice

because it gives us an extra knot. A B Sea is

quite a fast little bo. She as I've

mentioned previously she will do

8 knots at 1,800 revs in dead flat

conditions because of the nice Gory

folding prop we have. But even under

sail she will belt out a good a good

tune.

We haven't really had perfect wind and

perfect sails to find out what her peak

is but I'm sure we'll get an opportunity

somewhere along the line. Anyway I

digress ... where was it going with this?

Oh yeah

this is just another hop towards our

final destination of Kas in Turkey it's

spelled Kas but pronounced cash and the

reasons we're going there I've mentioned

previously I think. Mike on that boat

over there who's helping some other

people get to the same place - he's got

a big toolbox and he's gonna let me have

access to that so we can complete a list

of little niggly jobs that we want to

just tweak on A B Sea. We've got to be there

by at least the 12th of October because

Mike's fiance Elaine needs to be

somewhere. It's now the 4th of October

so we do have plenty of time, it's not

far to go,but we're just doing

little hops after that big 24-hour hop.

We are now just passing by the southern

portion of the Greek island of Serifos

and first impressions is it's very rocky

and not very green. In fact the only

green thing I can see is in some of the

rock coloration. It's quite amazing to

think that people live here and farm

here and survive here - it's very very

barren. But maybe this is just the

southern portion, maybe it's beautiful

and green in the north, we haven't been

there yet. What we are going to do is

around that headland there we're going

to take a left-hand turn or we're going

to turn to port for you nautical folks

and there's a big bay in there and we're

going to find the the port town and

we're going to stay here for tonight. So

that should be interesting.

We need to fuel up again and while we

can we'll top off the water tanks. Always

like to keep the tanks as topped up as

possible you never know when you know

somewhere you go might not have what

you're looking fot. At least it gives you

some extra wriggle room to move on to

somewhere else to get fuel or water.

So we are now

probably about an hour away from

dropping anchor . Of course when I say

dropping anchor, I mean dropping anchor

to moor on the key side stern to

Med mooring style.

The more practice, the better you get apparently.

We''ve got a stowaway. Stowaway? Yep. Hasn't paid the fare? Yep. Oh look at that.

His little wings were nearly blowing off

so I've spent about an hour just

actually sheltering him! You do realize

he'd probably got a lifespan of about

three hours. I know but you know he's got a

full three hour life span now and now

that the wind's dropped off you know he's

alright

he can hold on!

I'm on a 46 foot boat with her!

A B Sea A B Sea Mira over. Go ahead

Yeah Barry yeah we've ended up along side so

you can come alongside us. We're about to use some of our fenders on the inside

so put some more of your fenders in between you and us over.

Okay so most of my fenders on my port side?

You reverse in, put your fenders on your port side. Put 4 on the port side, 3 on the starboard

side then come alongside us over.

Next week on sailing A B Sea we have a good

sail from Serifos to Ios and it gets a

little hairy near the end with 30-knot

winds and confused seas. But it all ends

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