Our Life On A Sailboat In The Med - Exploring Samos!

Our life on a sailboat in the Mediterranean

We explore the beautiful island of Samos, and have some very weird winds to try and work out! Not much sailing was done, but it was fun all the same!

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[reelhappytravellers]

The absolutely beauty is reflected this video .
Not only stunning but also gorgeous .
This video attracts me a lot .🤩😂❤

[ketchingmyndwindsvchopsticks]

Nice video!!! Thanks for sharing your adventure!!! 😎⛵🥢

[SVBlownAway]

We feel your pain with the varying forecasts and differing winds! The Greek weather never seems very well forecast.

[razisn]

Good fun! Just a small correction. Samos does not belong in the Dodecanese complex but in the Eastern Aegean island complex. The two complexes have important differences in terms of their 20th century history apart from their geographical and administrative ones so this is a quite important distinction. In case you care for a bit of history, the Northern and Eastern Aegean islands where seized by Greece from the Ottoman Empire during the Balkan Wars in 1912 while the Dodecanese islands where seized from the Ottoman Empire by the Italians during WW1 and transferred to Greece after WW2. Btw that was a fast attack missile craft, a type of small littoral navy boats and the missiles were either Exocet or Harpoon surface to surface. The winds were behaving like this because most probably a storm was approaching or leaving the area.

[drewgibbons]

Hey guys.
Wind huh?? 2 things I'll share, as you invited. Nope, 3.
Wind predicting is nigh impossible as the variables are myriad and in flux.
The Med is where they chained folk to oars and carried loads of water and food to keeps the engines running, because the wind was so crap.
3. Ever see a wind dervish
spinning leaves and such, or a water spout? Picture same many miles across and that wind pattern you were in should make more sense.
All winds are of use, some require more work, is all.
😃
Fair winds & hooks that stick.
Drew
ps. Nope, 4.
The med is also tricky, in part, as hot dry air from the deserts south and east create so much verticle lift alternating with inversions that the cooler, wetter systems from north and further south and west interact and it winds up like this sentence.
Ciao