Gouvia Marina, Corfu – 25 September 2018
Today was a prime example of why I don’t understand the weather patterns here in the Med. We had an extraordinarily calm night with not a breath of air. I was so warm I was unable to sleep very well. So it was a bit of surprise when at about 9am and we were thinking of leaving the wind started to build. Eventually it blew up to a Force 6 just as we were pulling up the anchor. When we got out to sea it was still blustery. Eventually the wind was 17- 22 knots on the beam and we sailed for about an hour on Genoa alone doing about 6 knots. That seemed good when all of a sudden the wind went round on the nose and dropped to 5 knots. In all this time there was absolutely no change in the general weather. It was sunny with a bit of cloud and fairly warm in the sun (though the strong breeze when we had it was cool). Richard put the drop in the wind down to coming into the lee of Corfu Island. But that didn’t explain why as we got closer to the island the wind started to pic