And ... we are ... definitly not off! Our original plans had us arriving our first Greek Island (Kastellorizou) by now. On sailboats plans always change, much like the weather. We have gale force winds coming today, so we'll wait here until it breaks, probably Saturday.
That leaves us plenty of time to get work done on Jungle. Or just goof off! I vote Plan B!
We are at the Grand Resort Hotel next door to our marina. They have a fantastic, reasonably priced brunch, all we need to hear. "Hey waiter can I get another 10 sausages" and "can I bring the whole roast beef to my table?" and "do you have a low salt wheel of Brie?". Americans! Gotta love 'em!
The thing about resorts is you can eat at their brunch, but the pool is for guests only. Soooooo, our undercover slueth Jenée scores a couple of resort pool towels and we plop right down poolside. The fact is the place is empty this time of year and we make it up in purchased ice cream cones, by me. Medical treatment, doctors orders, too complicated to discuss ... move along please. Off in the distance, you can see our St. Raphael Marina office building.
As Jenée is indicating, it's blowing snot out there! Technical sailing term.
You might ask, "aren't you on a sailboat, and isn't wind part of the whole sailing thingy?" To which I say, "what the hell do you know? Sitting on your fat ass, eating stale pizza, with ketchup stains from last weeks crappy barbeque all over your badly undersized T-shirt from your failed attempt at your high school JV badminton team, that went 0 and 19!".
Sorry, so sorry, I probably got just a tad defensive and unnecessarily emotional there.
Whew, better now. Any hoo, we do get some more time to check things out on Jungle, get more things done - always things to do. The fact is we can sail through this stuff if we have to, and we have. You just beat yourselves up and the boat, sails, etc. when doing it. We don't mind being stuck in Cyprus at all. The winds come up in the AM, blow hard in the afternoon and subside by late evening. Looking at the weather forecast, we'll have a good window of calm weather this weekend. That's the key to sailing finding windows of pleasant weather.
We will most likely head straight for Kos this weekend and prepare to meet up with Jenée's brother Mike and wife Monica.
1 comment:
You're funny!!! I would also have a hard time leaving Cyprus... even knowing that more beautiful places are waiting for me..... Smooth Sailing.
Cathy
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