ITH
Member
Anyone with recent (2015) experience of the mooring situation in Mykonos please?
Mykonos Marina
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Palarran
Member
I was there twice last year. Does that count? If so, what exactly do you want to know.
ITH
Member
Thank you Palarran: my concern was with previous reports of foul areas and anchor problems, but I have just heard from two yachts who have been there this month - and put me right.
charles_reed
Active member
Confirmed by a long posting on CA site by Chris Robb, in the last fortnight - don't use your anchor, some of the tails have been replaced but they're cut as soon as renewed by visitors strippers. Marina management struggling to keep up with attrition.
jimbaerselman
New member
Leaves me with a picture of naked crew leaping overboard, knife in hand . . .
macd
Active member
On Mykonos, that could very well be the case...
ITH
Member
In that case I won't tell the memsahib until we clear the entrance.
charles_reed
Active member
jimbaerselman
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If you're there between 15th June and 14th July . . . after that we're traveling until late August.
charles_reed
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Thanx - still in N Aegean so Aug-Sep most likely. Enjoy the travels.!!
ITH
Member
Thank you Charles; we have just left Mykonos, where we had N 4 to 6 for several days. The situation was a little chaotic with crossed lines and fouled anchors. As you say, management (Nikos) is struggling, and in the N basin there is a heavy mooring line chain running W to E, about half way between the two quays, which caught out yachts that did not lay their anchors far enough out to avoid it. Space was also quickly being taken by yachts from 'local' charter operations. The large area of unmade ground to the E and the NW of the basins is a sand trap; together with the strong winds we were quickly covered in orange sand.
