Thursday 8 June 2017 - Plati Yialos, Sifnos

Well, the weather forecast turned out to be correct.  It absolutely poured with rain all morning. So as planned we did our domestic chores.  I finished cleaning and polishing the woodwork in the saloon and gave the heads a once over. 

We have had a problem with the bilge pump.  It keeps turning on automatically which means we are accumulating water in the bilges.  Richard did look at the stern gland under way yesterday and it was letting in a lot of water.  We hope that is the problem.  So we tightened that up.  Only problem is that the bilge water is brackish, so some fresh water is getting in.  We hope it was the rain, not a leaking water tank!  As of this evening we haven’t heard the bilge pump go on again.

The afternoon cheered up a bit and we finally got to clean the side decks.   They are better, but still stained.  The damned marina left chrome polish all over the place and we can’t get rid of it.

Up until today there have been few boats here in the harbour.  But that certainly changed this afternoon when 10 more boats arrived and filled the harbour.  The things that have come in are huge.  It is only a small harbour and one wonders why they think it is a suitable place.  But the harbour master managed to berth everyone, so guess that is how it works.  Very odd, virtually all the boats are charter boats, many with hired skippers.  We are really the odd one out!




The forecast high winds for tomorrow are now not forecast!  However we have ordered a car and will stick to our plan to look around the island.  Sunday’s forecast is for very little wind but Monday’s is for a Meltemi!

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