harry @sysop.ooo · 23/09/2026Indigo and I got the Leros Regatta spirit of the race award ⛵️ first time I’ve ever gotten award for coming in last 😳🙂 271
harry @sysop.ooo · 22/09/2026the pleasure of sailing a character boat in a (semi-serious) regatta 🙃 Leros, end of summer - the 16th Göran Schildt Regatta 140
harry @sysop.ooo · 21/08/2026The art of the Minoans at Akrotiri is exceptional. Verisimilitude and feeling not to be replicated in the area for a millenium. My favorite is the single-stoke plant leaves. 2110
harry @sysop.ooo · 21/08/2026at anchor off Akrotiri / Akrotiri at dusk / ancient harbor of Thera, dawn / the view from the acropolis of Thera 2142
harry @sysop.ooo · 13/08/2026Making seven knots broad on the Meltemi. Two reefs, full yankee, between Sifnos and Ios ⛵️ 3143
harry @sysop.ooo · 04/08/2026Two pretty yachts in Porto Cheli - the second is Shamrock V, last surviving America’s Cup J-Class; a sign in modern and Tsakonian Greek, the latter the last surviving Doric dialect; a sign while walking the route of the first marathon towards the Lyceum. 080
Reposted by harryAlexandra Sills @belovedofoizys.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Idly imagining dozens of Athenians loudly reciting their think pieces in the agora and tearing each other to shreds because a Euripides play riffing on the Trojan cycle didn't please every single citizen simultaneously. 411916
harry @sysop.ooo · 23/07/2026Got a little karma for mocking an English sailor nearly exactly one year ago at the Scottish border. Sailing for Eyemouth, he put into Burnmouth (and ran aground). They’re 2nm apart! …& today I lazily ran downwind into Plaka, moored, & found myself in Sabatiki, 2nm north. (No grounding though 😮💨) 170
harry @sysop.ooo · 17/07/2026In Monemvasia, ‘Gibraltar of the East,’ whence Malmsey wine was once shipped and for which it is named 🍷⛵️🇬🇷 2130
harry @sysop.ooo · 08/07/2026Spent some days in sandy Pylos last week. Visited the tholos (Mycenaean) tomb called Thrasymedes’. (A son of ‘wise’ Nestor, wanax of Pylos and giver of mostly bad advice in the Illiad. His reputed palace in the nearby hinterland I visited some years ago.) 290
Reposted by harryJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Persuasion is basically the second half of a much longer novel. Austen just decided not to write the first part. This is why it is her best novel 314511
harry @sysop.ooo · 22/06/2026Mandatory yacht inspection by the harbormaster of Sami, Kefalonia. Frankly she was embarrassingly easy to bribe. 090
harry @sysop.ooo · 22/06/2026Reaching between Κεφαλονιά and Ζάκυνθος. 5-6 knots in 10-12 knots of wind. 1181
harry @sysop.ooo · 18/06/2026At anchor, dusk, in the bay of Abelike, Meganisi, just north of Ithaki. We’re bound for Patras, then onwards to the Corinthian Canal. 050
harry @sysop.ooo · 07/06/2026Rewired Indigo's 2x 130w solar panels from series to parallel (better performance when one is shaded - increased current isn't a concern with such a small array). Add the new lifeline mounting location (which reduces overall shade), & Apollo's fulgent summer sun 🇬🇷, & voila: our first kWh day! 190
harry @sysop.ooo · 30/05/2026Indigo coming into anchor under sail ⛵️#sailing Palairos, 8-10 knots of wind. (The yankee is furled to manage speed, and you can see the anchor prepped below bobstay.) Great video courtesy of Sam from Sheffield. 1132
Reposted by harryNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I'm concerned people think I'm joking about this. 302456616
harry @sysop.ooo · 20/05/2026Leaving a Lefkas marina pontoon under sail power alone ⛵️ (conditions were optimal: wind fifteen on the nose, marina’s exit astern, Indigo moored to end of the pontoon) 180
harry @sysop.ooo · 11/05/2026Anchored for tonight off Aetos, Ithaki. Here, a bronze age citadel of lesser fame than Mycenae or Pylos - is it Odysseas’ palace 🏺? We’ve come two & a half miles from Vathy. I sailed it on wind which was mostly just rumour - an hour or more, fifteen tacks, to drift out the harbor channel ⛵️ #sailing 2122
harry @sysop.ooo · 03/05/2026Close hauled in seven knots, tacking south and past the sunset to Kefalonia. 3131
harry @sysop.ooo · 01/05/2026Newly repaired foresail looking fly in 5-7 knots off the port beam. (She’d taken a beating in the 40+ knot blow between Sardinia and Sicilia.) 5 stars & my thanks Quantum Sails Corfu, a family-owned sail loft which appreciates that boats should have soul ⛵️:) 3101
harry @sysop.ooo · 18/04/2026Indy sailing herself into Nsis Vido anchorage in light airs. She’s 26 and able to look after herself! 3101
harry @sysop.ooo · 13/04/2026Greece 🇬🇷! Close reaching into Cocyra after a heavy crossing from Krotone 3111
harry @sysop.ooo · 03/04/2026Seems unwise to name a boat after an object whose most famous property is being stuck on a rock 🗡️🪨 0100
harry @sysop.ooo · 14/03/2026the Tyndaridae (that’s Castor & Pollux), Quasimodo’s “Wind at Tindari” so apposite, the byzantine black madonna of Tindari: all these I made accidental pilgrimage to yesterday. Now they or meteorological circumstance bless the Bay of Oliveri with a seven knot breeze. #sailing ⛵️ 081
harry @sysop.ooo · 12/03/2026Tacking out of Mylae. We’re bound for Tyndaris, a few miles back west 130
harry @sysop.ooo · 09/03/2026shhh don’t spook the wind making 3ish in 6ish knots over the port beam on short crossing to Vulcano 2100
harry @sysop.ooo · 06/03/2026While anchored off Tusa, an unexpected wind came up two mornings ago. I’d already spotted the Aeolians beckoning just on the northern horizon, so I sprang on the wind… 150
harry @sysop.ooo · 06/03/2026It’s slow going without wind! But on the upside the calm seas made it safe to anchor just off the beach at Alaesa, a hellenized Sicilian polis just beyond Cefalu. (The modern down is called Tusa.) Of little note, it rates a passing mention in Cicero and… 150
harry @sysop.ooo · 02/03/2026Still waiting for a decent wind. A slow week on the north coast of Sicily. Sailed slowly into Cefalu two days past. 281
harry @sysop.ooo · 26/02/2026Anchoring off the beach at Himera - after Marsoelle, Empiries, and Selinous, the westernmost indisputable Greek polis. No harbor, but anchoring off the beach ok: no wind forecast for another 6 days :(. 0121
harry @sysop.ooo · 23/02/2026Moored in Panormus - the all-harbor. A lively sail east on a mild mistral, with the sun setting over Mons Pecararo. 1122
harry @sysop.ooo · 21/02/2026Made a friend while wandering the streets of Emporion Segestum last night (Castellammare del Golfo) Eventually his mom came by and reproached him for trusting the laps of strangers so readily 😸 280
harry @sysop.ooo · 20/02/2026Landfall Sicily. It was a wild one - bare pole running at 6+ most of last night! At points 30 gusting 40 with 3m+ 🌊. Fickle February Med ⛵️ Here’s dawn today 2120
