Flight from Greece
Peter and his wife Jude were going to visit us last August but it was not to be. We had met them in Porto di Roma the previous winter and after leaving Rome they did some cruising around Corsica then headed south. Peter had previously had a brain tumour and was ever conscious that it could recur. They set off from Northern Sicily for Puglia and then Peter starting having fits. Jude sailed the boat on her own for two or three days and ended up in Preveza on the mainland of Greece, basically because that is where the wind took her. She sent us text messages of her progress which confused us, not being aware at the time of the depth of the crisis on their boat. They left Preveza in a hurry to get back to the States and to medical treatment. Peter was fined for having an out of date visa and Jude was told that their boat “Flight”, must be out of Greek waters within six months. It was only later, talking to Jude that I understood the full trauma of these events, with Jude ha...