Pythagoreon to Chios

After a day spent working, shopping, doing the laundry, etc, we set off on the longish trip North to Chios. We had very little wind and what there was was on the nose, so we motored through the Samos Straight where Greece is no more than 1 mile from Turkey. This bit of water has an evil reputation as there are often strong currents and overfalls. We saw nothing however and passed serenely through. Then it was round to the isolated bay of Asperokhorti. This was slightly rolley with a Westerly wind although it would have been perfectly sheltered in any other.
The bay had warm, crystal clear turqoise water and nothing but a few fishing boats. Late in the afternoon, a young man built like Adonis took out his fishing boat. The macho image was slightly tarnished by the fact that it was a pedalo! Didn't stop him from catching fish though and I guess it gave his legs a workout.

Then it was on to Karlovasi - just as an overnight before the 10 hour trip to Chios. The harbor is enormous and seems to be the main ferry port for Samos. We moored stern to on the huge concrete quay and L did some shopping (very poor apparently).We were warned by a German Lady to loosen off when the ferries come in as they were now on the hard having a large amount of transom damage fixed - caused by wash.

Just after that a West wind got up that pushed us sideways hard. The anchor was well set - but the bottom must be soft because it kept slackening off and putting us back to the quay. After a lot of ineffectual playing with lines and chains, we gave up and taking L's suggestion, anchored in the North West corner of the harbor. Much safer! I just hope the port police leave us alone.

Tomorrow we're off at sparrow fart to Chios.