When you live on a boat at sea your morning routine differs slightly from the rest of the world. No sun salutation, morning run or wake up meditation, the first action together with your morning coffee is the weather check. Most of us boaties use more than one app just to make sure, but what showed up on all weather forecast modells last September – was XY the second hurrican in the mediteraian called Medican. It was clear that it would hit the Ionian Islands, but where it would rage the wildest it was uncertain.

Where to anchor?

Living ashore doesn´t give you this choice, you close shutters, tidy up balcony or terrace if you´ve got one and then you snuggle up on your couch together with a good book and a candle. In Greece electricity and telephone masts are objects likely to fail during heavy winds or tremdous rain.

Onboard we have different problems.

The whole event started in the late afternoon and lastet during half of the night. Tired and frustrated watching our life being beaten into peaces, we booked into a hotel close by. No luggage to be carried,  beside our emergency crab bag. It has been impossible to enter the boat after we stepped of in the last safe minute. Late at night Kariem could enter the boat for a first look at the disaster. Due to a broken window in the back of the boat water swapped inside for hours. The engine room has been flooded and the master cabin completely soaked.