Wednesday 23 April 2025 - Poros, Kephalonia

Having, remarkably, managed to do a drop anchor and reserve to the key mooring yesterday, at the first attempt, with no dramas, we also managed to get out in similar fashion this morning. To be fair, it was as easy as it could be because there were no boats either side of us, so we could be confident that there was no risk of being tangling with someone else’s anchor.

Vathy is a splendid place to stop over. The port police are civil and reasonable, making getting a stamp on the transit log quick and easy. There are good shops for supplies, and it’s pretty. The bay is well protected from most wind directions, but not from the northwest, which is frequent in the afternoons.

As we had put out less anchor chain out than would be ideal in big side-on winds , the choice was to re-park if we wanted to stay another night, or leave. We chose to move on.

It’s a nice distance of 18 miles from Vathy to Poros, at the southern end of Kephalonia. A small amount of wind mid journey allowed us to sail for a while. The AIS, giving us information about the movements of ships nearby, allowed us to track the huge ferry that goes to Poros from about 18 miles away. Distance / speed / time calculations allow you to work out what time it will arrive, and adjust our speed to arrive a short while afterwards, so as to get into the harbour while it is unloading and loading. Lots of big lorries, cars and vans use this ferry to get back and forth to the mainland.

We were sufficiently early to get a nice spot of the one short pontoon here. Spyros, the small vessel harbour master, had advised us that, as it’s not the start of the season yet, he wouldn’t be there, but we had chosen to arrive in benign conditions, so we could park without assistance.



We spotted the diving board out over the sea.

Isn't it terrible when there is no space left on the beach?

Poros is a sleepy little, very Greek town, but the seafront cafes and restaurants are getting ready for the holiday season. There’s a long pebbly beach with crystal clear water.

Distance today -       20 Miles

Distance this year - 372 miles 

Tricia (and Steve)

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