Well, planning wasn’t very conclusive. We had two option “A” or “B” and we kept leaning very heavily towards “or”. The problem is that the routes are very different; one goes out to the Cyclades islands (cute and exciting) while the other heads more directly back to our base (pragmaticbut a little more dull).
Our masterly inconclusiveness enables a potential weather problem to reveal itself this morning. When sailing, you can download fairly specific maritime weather charts for three-hour intervals covering the next few days. This is a big deal and tremendously helpful. We have four of these forecast apps on our iPads. (You’ll see why in a minute). The weather or route A is starting to look bad for the few days we’ll be down there. Three of the apps agree whereas the fourth says it’s no big deal. So we decided to stay another day here in Angistri and see if the models converge onto a single forecast.
It is not exactly a hardship to be stuck in this lovely spot. We have a lot of administrative and logistical things to do. One of these is, as you know, setting up the “subscription” option for this blog. Hopefully that’s done and our subscribers should get an email each day that there is new blog content (at 4:00am Arizona time).
It’s not as hot as it was yesterday (maybe I was a bit premature about the switch being turned on). So most of our tasks are below decks but it is still pleasant enough to sip a glass of wine on deck at the end of the day.
We have some movies on board and we watched “Failure to Launch” last night. It has a few brief sailing moments but ,more importantly for Lori, Matthew McConaughey with his shirt off.