{"id":417,"date":"2026-09-27T17:18:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=417"},"modified":"2026-10-03T10:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:42:47","slug":"preveza-corfu-2010","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=417","title":{"rendered":"Back to Preveza and Corfu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2010 season began with the flight from Australia to Athens and the long bus trip west to Preveza, where Malua had spent the northern winter ashore. Iain came with me and there was plenty to do before launch.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Preparing Malua<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The winter cover had done its job. Below decks everything was dry and clean. Iain washed and polished the topsides, then sanded the antifouling and we applied Micron Extra bought in Venice the previous year. Once launched and commissioned, Malua was ready for another Mediterranean summer.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">North to Corfu<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We sailed north from Preveza through Paxos and on to Corfu, eventually anchoring beneath the New Castle. In the clear water we could see the sand patches and laid out 40 metres of chain. It was a calm beginning to a season that would take us a long way west.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=1966\">Read more \u2014 Preveza and the Ionian<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=1967\">Read more \u2014 Corfu and the Ionian<\/a><\/div><\/div><nav class=\"wp-block-group malua-voyage-nav is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" aria-label=\"Voyage navigation\" style=\"margin-top:40px\"><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=11\">\u2190 Back to Voyages<\/a><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=418\">Next: Across to Sicily \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/nav>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2010 season began with the flight from Australia to Athens and the long bus trip west to Preveza, where Malua had spent the northern winter ashore. Iain came with me and there was plenty to do before launch. Preparing Malua The winter cover had done its job. Below decks everything was dry and clean. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":416,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_about_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_gallery_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_contact_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_events_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_video_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_portfolio_piece":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-417","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PhqRzp-6J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417\/revisions\/2002"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}