Raffaellesco - Bill and Suzette's Sailing Adventure

 April 15, 2025 – Corinth, Peloponnese, Greece The weather turned overnight and gave us a drizzle of rain in the morning, but not enough to wash the salt of the decks. By noon it was clearing and warming, time to go grocery shopping. We were out of everything including one of Suzette’s prescription eye drops. Surprisingly it only took two pharmacy stops to find what she needed, and they refilled her prescription. The grocery store was big, and we were able to find most everything on our list. With an overflowing wagon we walked back to the boat and restocked the boat. The day was warming nicely, shorts were in order and an afternoon walk to explore the city of Corinth. The city is here because of the canal that connects the Ionian Sea to the   Aegean Sea. Before the canal they would drag boats across the isthmus and Corinth existed to support that endeavor as well. The city is decaying. In the shopping area the pedestrian streets are very nice, but the occupancy of store f...

 April 8, 2025 – Lefkas town, Lefkas, Greece We had a few errands to run before leaving the marina, the most important being the generator. Our paranoia set in when we received additional emails from Cummins directing us to ENEQ as the dealer to make the repairs. Our first stop was the generator repair shop where they assured us that they were working with ENEQ and they were authorized to work on Cummins generators. They understood that we wanted them to pull the generator when we returned from our cruise in June and perform the repair while we were away from the boat in the summer. We felt confident that we could make this happen. Next, we had to return to the Port Authority to get our departure stamp in our Transit Log. This time there was a line. Fortunately, the people in line were there for other business and we were ushered in to the Transit Log office. Ironically they made more copies of all the same documents, asked our destination and stamped our Log. The officer expla...