We haven't blogged for a while. We did what we set out to do having sailed May Winds across seven seas (see future posts) to her new home in our beloved Gocek and the last few weeks have been more of a holiday. It's no use blogging about a holiday.

Anyway, today was momentous, so here's the blog.

We spent last night on Marinturk Exclusive Marina, which is in a bay around the corner from their main marina, and quite a way out of town. The main marina was full so they accommodated us in the Exclusive, which is usually reserved for "super-yachts" and was very quiet - we didn't see any other guests. Although a little spooky, it gave us the opportunity to get the sails off and spread them out on the dock for washing. The little washing machine worked overtime on load after load of clothes to leave on the boat and clothes to take home.

Greg stood on a wasp, which promptly stung him in the foot and that caused a bit of a stir. Otherwise, everything went smoothly and we motored down to Marinturk for the 2pm liftout.

The liftout operation took considerably more time than the launch in Preveza back in May. May Winds now stands in the yard and it felt strange to see her out of the water once again. The marina staff did an excellent job of lifting her, jet-washing the bottom and then trailing her to her spot in the far yard. They even moved an electricity connection pillar 100 metres across the yard so we could plug in.

Now we are settled into the Efe Hotel, on dry land and it feels like the end of a big adventure.

Tomorrow we'll give May Winds a thorough clean inside and out before tucking her up for the winter in her new home.

I'm sure many adventures will follow in the future when we return to relaunch the boat that became our home for the summer.