Another visit to the cool corridors of the Monastery today. We dodged between the boatloads of visitors for a quiet time. The veneration of icons was being taken very seriously and respectfully by the visiting Greeks. Maire lit a candle for the children (paid for with a Methodist Euro).
Having decided this was a good anchorage for another night we moved to find a slightly more sheltered spot. Choosing where to drop the anchor is part guesswork and part prediction of what will happen. The tricky bit is estimating where other boats' anchors are. In a strong wind this is quite easy as the boat will be pushed straight back from it with the chain pulled tight. When the wind isn't so strong, and is blowing in a different direction from when the anchor was laid, it becomes tricky estimating where on the seabed, many metres below, the other anchors might be. Then the 3D figuring of swinging circles, ours and others, plus the guesstimate of what the wind will do overnight makes it a tricky process. We'll see later how we did.
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