Delivery trip part 4 - 5:31 PM, Apr. 12, 2007

Tuesday April 10 - 19:15, call from Popeye, Sirius had just emerged from the Messsina straits. They'd gone in with 2 knots of favourable current, no wind, and maintained 8 knots throughout.No signs of monsters, whirlpools à la Odysseus, apparently the Alderney race is much more scary! Once through the straits, and turning NE-ish, were able to cut the engine and hoist the sails. Morale seemed good on board, and a a spag bol was being prepared. Only cloud on the horizon was the diminishing beer stock. Signs of mutiny in the hours to come? ETA Corfu the small hours Friday morning.

Thursday April 11 - 11:00 - in reponse to a question re contact person in Corfu ( to fax onward travel docs), get reply that they would actually prefer Sirius to be delivered to Lefkas, and hoped this wouldn't complicate logistics too much, and could I please inform the crew? WTF, I will be out of phone contact until they approach the Corfu coast, after a 70 hour passage, and can't imagine myself asking Popeye to turn right at the end of Corfu, instead of left, adding a further 50 miles tp his trip. As for logistics, no prob, same ferry, different port, but 100km of road between marina and port, which will probably involve a taxi. So I politely suggested that the trip continue as planned, and that Kiriacoulis find their own solution for the passage Corfu-Lefkas. No reply yet....

Thurday April 12 - 19:00 - Popeye called, approaching the SE tip of Corfu, about to turn the corner and take the wind on the nose. Asked if he'd not prefer to turn right to Lefkas, and have a fair wind. Expletives ensued. So we agreed that , in the absence of further communication from Kiriacoulis, our telecon had not taken place, and that he would proceed to Gouvia as planned. Wonder what would have happened if they had decided during the course of the last 10 days that they wanted the boat back in Bormes? Or the Carribean?

Beer stocks exhausted, part of crew also. ETA Gouvia 01:00 tomorrow.