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YCC CRUISE 2014 Greece The Western Cyclades September 6. to September 13.

YCC CRUISE 2014 Greece The Western Cyclades September 6. to September 13

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YCC CRUISE 2014

GreeceThe Western Cyclades

September 6. to September 13.

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• This year the YCC Cruise went to Greece.• A total of 11 participants shared two boats.• “LA LUNA“ , a Cyclades 43.4• “ESPERANZA“ , a Sun Odyssey 43.9• La Luna was skippered by Michel Chevallier • and Hansueli Brunner.• Esperanza was skippered by Manfred

Willenbrock and Dennis Grier.

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Route of S/Y ESPERANZA

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Route of S/Y LA LUNA

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Saturday

• Michel and his crew left Alimos Marina in the late afternoon heading towards Aegina island where they reached Marina bay between 9 and 10 pm, where a very loud party went on all night onshore!

• Esperanza and her crew left Athens one hour after La Luna and anchored 4 h later in a small sheltered bay on Moni island near Aegina. No loud party !

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Sunday

• The next day, Sunday, the 2 boats sailed to beautiful Poros.

• The crew of La Luna, which arrived earlier, reserved already a mooring place for us.

In the evening, the 2 crews had a very good dinner together in a nice taverna at the back of the town. Rain cought us in the night, but was already gone the next morning.

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Monday

Our destination was Hydra, but the tiny harbor was full on arriving and we were forced to find an other place for the night.The crew of La Luna spend the night in the beautiful and calm Nicolos bay, south of the island Hydra.Esperanza anchored not far from Hydra harbor in well protected Molou bay two miles to the west.

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Tuesday

• Today we parted ways.• La Luna sailed some 60 miles in one day to

reach the island of Kitnos. They started with one reef and arrived under engine.

• Esperanza came back to Hydra harbor to visit this lovely small town. In the afternoon we left and sailed to Ermioni, a pleasant small town on the Peleponnese, were we anchored in the local harbor.

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Wednesday• As the crew from La Luna arrived in Kitnos, they

decided to moor in Kolona bay but the anchor winch engine broke down and they had to use the spare anchor instead.

• The crew from Esperanza had an other problem: As we decided to leave, we lifted our anchor and brought up the heavy chain of an other ship.

• Dennis gave us a lesson how to separate our anchor from this chain.

• The plan for today was sailing some 20 miles to Spetses, visit the town and continue to the south of the island of Hydra with the possibility to find a protected place for the night.

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Thursday

• La Luna contacted the charter company about their anchor winch problem. They were asked to sail to Kea island and to wait in the main harbor, Korissa for the repairing.

• Esperanza was quite far from the final destination. We had to come closer to Athens.

• Our route today: Island of Hydra to Agistri (distance 41 miles)

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Friday

• After 36 hours waiting to get the winch engine repaired, La Luna could continue her cruise with destination Cape Sunion and its famous Temple of Poseidon, dominating the sea from the top of the cliff.

• For Esperanza and her crew, the last day of the cruise began. After a quite night in a tiny bay we lifted up the anchor and left for Athens.

• Aeolus, the God of the winds, was not really with us. Sometime we had less than 3 Bft and we were forced to switch on the motor, to reach the marina Alimos in Athens on time.

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Saturday

• Esperanza arrived Friday evening in the marina at 6 pm.

• We planed to have dinner together with the crew of La Luna, but they arrived only Saturday morning at 8 am.

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A superb week• The itinerary of La Luna was:• Athens Alimos Marina –

Aegina Bay – Poros – Hydras – Kithnos – Kea – Cape Sunion – Athens Alimos (190 miles).

• The itinerary of Esperanza was:• Athens Alimos Marina – Moni Aeginas –

Poros – Hydra – Ermioni – Spetses – Agkistiri – Athens Alimos (179 miles).

• All in all, a superb week. The atmosphere on board was very good and I am sure, everybody enjoyed this cruise.

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The crew of “La Luna“

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The crew of “Esperanza“