This may be Lukas's last sail on Liza for a while. He's off back to the UK.

He did an immense amount of work during the lift out for which I'm thankful and so today it was a long sail with me, his mum (Sheila) and Lukas.











We sailed across the bay to the Dhekelia Sailing club and watched them sailing, then back to the Larnaka Nautical Club and watched the kids learning to sail. Then back and the wind slightly dropped...

And there's this mega yacht sitting outside the marina. We're peering over trying to work out which flag it's flying. Looks like Cayman Islands.

It's name is Maryah… so looking it up on Google it's 125m long and 17m wide! Up to 54 guests with the owner and then 48 crew and 34 staff members! Staff members because there's a night club on board.









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