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Next port of call is Sayaidha, easy to find as its about 15 miles due East from the Corfu Citadel, out of NAOK turn right and straight across.

Finding Sayaidha is one thing getting into the harbour is another.

Until the tension between Greece and Albania abated a few years ago this was a military zone and tourism was definitely out. There is even a ruined town up in the hills, abandoned as it was too close to the border.

When things relaxed they built a nice new ferry slip and a little harbour but neither really worked very well. The ferries decided it was easier to drop their loads further along the bay and reduce the distance they had to come from Corfu, and some bright engineer put the harbour entrance facing due west towards Corfu.

Well that meant that any westerly wind had 15 miles to build up a good sea state and come crashing straight into the harbour..

Easily solved, fill in the western entrance and blast a new one in the more sheltered southern arm of the harbour.

OK it now works but the first time you line up to come in you will wonder if they ran out of dynamite before they finished the job. The entrance looks very very narrow. It is actually wide enough to get two Benetteau 361’s in it side by side, but standing at the wheel looking at it, it just doesn’t feel wide enough as the ends of both quays disappear below the bow. Is that is why some nice person put two big lamp-posts on the ends?

Well I’ve been in here with a Jaguar 27 and a Benetteau 361 but this time its a Bavaria 42, and just to make things really interesting there’s a nice Bf5 cross wind.

For some reason Sayaidha seems to be one of those ports where you always seem to get a good blast late in the afternoon, just as you are about to park up for the day…

Oh yes and while I remember, dont swing to far south when lining up for the entrance as it gets very shallow that side of Sayaidha bay…