New inflatable dinghy

This is Kataklysmos weekend, the weekend Orthodox Christians celebrate both the flood that only Noah and his family survived and the giving of the Holy Spirit. In reality it has become a festival similar to Mardi Gras for the Catholics, with stalls and loads of cheap junk sold to unsuspecting purchasers, fireworks and a fun fair along Finikoudes.

For the Larnaca Nautical Club it's an excuse for a sail. On Kataklysmos Monday there is a sail and races round to Finikoudes and lunch at MacDonalds. For us, we decided on a sail in the Wayfarer and to try out the new inflatable dingy. So on Saturday we went down to the club and while I got Galini ready for her second sail of the season, Tim inflated the dinghy.

Tim took Jacob and left before us... motoring round to King Malu. It was straight into the wind, so tacking back and forth we had no chance of catching them up. We thought we saw them at a couple of times, around the port starboard buoy and called them on the marine band radio, but had no response.

Eventually they hailed us, when we were about half a mile out from the marina. They had reached the marina, unloaded the motor and Jacob had rowed round to King Malu and then helped hoist the dinghy onboard and it was now tied down on the foredeck.

Apparently Jacob had helmed the dinghy the whole way round from the club and the marine band hand held radio had been in the storage bag clipped to the front of the dinghy and neither of them had heard us calling them above the noise of the outboard.