Well
we are still here in Lipsi. Rather
like Ulysses we are detained here longer than we hoped. Yesterday was warm and sunny. The forecast rain from 6pm onwards
didn’t materialise. We took an
umbrella to the restaurant, just in case, and were the only ones to do so. The bad weather didn’t arrive until
about 5:30 this morning when we had a thunderstorm with huge amounts of
lightening but very little thunder.
We do not know if it was a Sirocco as suggested by one of the mooring
men. What it was, was heavy rain all morning and an afternoon with winds
blowing between 8 and 20 knots.
The boat was moving around a bit and by the afternoon, when it stopped
raining I was glad to get off and have a coffee in the nice bakery.
With
this bad weather, and this being one of the few local harbours protected from a
southerly wind, a lot of boats have been coming in. The normal pontoon filled up on Monday afternoon. They then put about 14 more boats on a
wall on the opposite side of the harbour, usually used by fishermen. Even more boats came in this morning
and many are just anchored all over the place. We are not sure what happens when the ferries come in!
With
the heavy rain we of course discovered that we have a couple of leaks in the
boat. One, from the main hatch we
knew about. The padding on the top
of the hatch has deteriorated and we had to pull it out. That lets a drip in over the
companionway. Not dire, but
annoying and we doubt there is much we can do about it without dismantling
quite a lot of the boat.
The
second leak is one we thought we had fixed last year. That is water coming in through the mast fitting. Richard tried to put some more sealant on,
but only did it after it stopped raining and he is not entirely sure exactly
where the leak is. More rain is
predicted for tonight and maybe he can then work it out.
The
weather forecast isn’t great for tomorrow either. So we are undecided whether we should go then or stay
another day. We do have lots of
time before we need to be in Leros to put the boat away for the winter and we
are running out of local places to go.
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