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Sailing Holidays have their entire fleet moving out of Gouvia today, thats about 120 yachts in twelve flotillas…

All of them have to find a harbour for the first night, and the first day is usually a short one by the time that you have all been shown where everything is on you boats, checked off the inventory etc.

So every harbour within twenty odd miles will have one or more fleet in it tonight, and where are we off to?

We are given one of the lazy options, we are only going just down the coast to the NAOK harbour just South of Corfu Citadel.

This is a pleasant little harbour, run by one of the local sailing clubs who get a few funds by charging visitors a small fee. It is also very convenient for Corfu town, being only a simple walk away.

If coming in with a yacht though don’t go too far over towards the clubhouse or the shore, it has a rocky bottom that comes up to meet you VERY fast!

One other thing to watch out for is that it is a more exposed to wash coming from passing ferries than you would expect from its position, the waves seem to bounce off the citadel rock and come into the harbour that way.

End up where we were near the end of the quay and you will find out what I mean!

Well we are the biggest yacht in the flotilla and one of the last ones in, so we get the berth nearest to the end of the quay but two berths along from us is a 96 foot motor yacht that makes our Bavaria look small.