In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we are sailing the last few Greek islands before checking out of Greece. We leave Astipalaia, sail to Nisyros and finally ...

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That guy captaining the cat that's just

left behind us is a two times Olympic

team member for the Estonia Olympic team.

Nice guy called Sven and he's going the

same place as we are today. He may not

know it but there's a race on.

Look at you being all healthy. Greek yogurt in Greece. I'm having average sugar and chocolate

Well that was a bit of a wild ride

exiting Astipalaia and now we're out

here we've got 17 knots of apparent wind

which is handlable. The swell is fairly big but

now we're under sail and working with

the ocean and the boat motion is

relatively calmed down but why it was so

bad in there was because first of all we

were headed straight into the swell and

the ocean comes in from depths of

200 300 400 meters of depth into that

Bay where it suddenly narrows down and

shallows down to 60 meters 50 meters 40

meters and all that water getting blown

in by the the wind has to build big

waves as the the depth gets shallower so

that's why we had such a soaking. Luckily

we've checked the boat and everything is

still good, all cameras are still good

and we're on our way to Nisyros yeah

oh Aannsha's got a soggy bandage

- wet paw -

and that little triangle I just pointed

to is the catamaran that left before us

that we're in the race with but don't tell anyone.

He's winning Baz.

He's not there yet is he? He could get dismasted

rolled over anything could happen. But don't wish that on him? No I

don't wish that on him because he's a

nice guy. But the race isn't finished

until it's over.

We could win this.We could. I don't care if he's an Olympic champion. We could win this!

So it's 3:30 in the afternoon and we've

just arrived at Nysiros. The journey

itself was really quite pleasant, it was

about seven hours long and we had about

20 knots of wind for a lot of the time.

Getting out of the channel from where we

were last night was really tricky but

you will have seen that already but the

rest of the journey was great and we had

the head sail out and we sailed pretty much all

of the way averaging about six knots so

we were really happy with that

so we're in and we're now sitting down

having a nice glass of wine in a beer

before we do some work so that you can

get to see the next episode!

It's the 10th of October today and it's

a lovely calm sunny day in the

Dodecanese islands in Greece. We left Nysiros at about 10 o'clock this morning

and we're headed for Simi which is

where we're going to find an anchorage

for tonight and then tomorrow we're

going to go into the main town in Simi

so that we can check out of Greece and

head over to Turkey to check in to Turkey

Okay drop it

All right I'm gonna test it

Aannsha's dodgy arm means of course that I

don't get my hair cut so I'm having a bit

of a Don King moment. If you don't know

who Don King is just google it you'll

see what I mean I'm Dom King.

We are anchored up here on the island of

Simi in the southwest corner in a little Bay

and this is drop-dead gorgeous. It's

just I would imagine in the summer

it's a nightmare with lots of charter

boats and DayTripper boats and lots of

to-ing and fro-ing with the ferries -

one's just come in now but right now out

of season there's just us, two other

yachts mmm and a catamaran, and the monastery just in front of us so

we're bedding down here for toniight before we head up north to Simi's main

town and then we'll be checking out of

Greece yeah we'll have to take the flag

down. Oh and get a Turkish flag - get the Turkish flag up . And Turkish delight when we get

ther. Proper Turkish delight yeah. So yeah this

place is just absolutely - it's beautiful

beautiful. It's very very tranquil isn't it?

Yeah. Okay

The following morning we

lifted the anchor and made our way north

to the old town of Simi so that we

could check out of Greece

We're at Simi at the moment and we're

just checking out of Greece

We're both tied to the customs dock and

only certain people are actually

allowed to get off the boat to take the

papers

So it's all quite interesting.

So behind

me you can see the main town on the

Greek island of Simi. We've just checked

out, we went to the port police where

they looked at our passports and our

crew list then we went all the way

across to the other side, we had to walk

across - just the captains of the boat

walk across to the other side of the port

area to check out with kind of like

Coast Guard if you like where they check

your insurance documents and they check

your boat registration papers. Now we've

got about a two and a half hour trip

further east to check in to Turkey. We've

already sent some of our documents ahead

via electronic means to an agent who's

going to help us check in to Turkey so

it was very simple for us with the DEKPA. It took about I don't know it took

longer for them to check the passports

and the crew list than it did to check

the insurance papers and the boat papers

but all in all I think the whole process

probably took maybe 20 minutes with a 20 minute walk between the two offices as

well so that's it we're out of out of

Greece and technically also out of

Europe once we cross over into Turkish waters

so we'll let you know what happens when

we get on the other side of the water here

Join us next week on Sailing A B Sea as we

cross the maritime border between Greece

and Turkey and we're greeted at the

Harbour of Bozburum by our shipping

agent with all the paperwork ready to

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