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A slight problem with flight bookings meant that I was travelling out to Greece four hours later than the skipper and the almost inevitable flight delay at Gatwick made this five and a half hours.

Still I arrived at Preveza airport at about 17:00 and with the boatyard only 3 km away, and with my hatred of inflated airport taxi prices, it was a half hour walk trundling my sea-bag to the entrance to Preveza Marine, the boatyard where the “Fox” had spent the winter.

A quick call to the skipper’s mobile and I found my way to the “Fox” my home for the next couple of weeks.

She is a “classic” design, of about the same era as the Jaguars that I have hired out here over the years, but without many of the “modern” features, that have since been added to the Jaguars…

A cool-box which requires bags of ice cubes to keep it cool, no hot water, solar shower bag etc.

We slip off to the local taverna for a meal and on return find that the cabin lights wont come on, and that all the ship’s torches are dead. No problem, my trusty head torch will allow us to see enough to get to sleep, (the first time I had ever had to sleep on a yacht that was sitting firmly on the ground)