Raffaellesco - Bill and Suzette's Sailing Adventure

 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...

 March 29, 2025 – Durres, Albania Up at 0530 to get ready for departure. The sky was overcast, and the wind was still. We floated off the craggy old concrete pier and headed south for Vlore, 55 miles dead south. The seas were calm, there was a light breeze on our nose, with the threat of rain in the clouds. We enjoyed some brief moments of sunshine, and very little rain as we motored south. We saw a few commercial fishing boats and a couple ships, but no pleasure boats. We were greeted by a small pod of very large Bottle Nose Dolphin, but they quickly moved on. Arriving at our anchorage, a cove called Shengjergjit at the NE end of the peninsula across the bay from Vlore. I remembered passing this cove when we were heading to Vlore on our last trip, well protected yet close to the entrance of the bay. We had no need to stop in Vlore again, this saved us some miles of travel and it is a beautiful spot with the green hills rising from a sandy beach and clear water. We dropped the ...