NE Corfu enjoys a fairly predictable wind pattern - not much wind until noon and then a steady increase until late afternoon. Yesterday afternoon I gave Albania a miss and did a quick blast to Kaparelli, an islet in the northern Corfu Channel and site of one of the oldest (and most decrepit) lighthouses in Greece. It is inhabited by pure bred rock doves (from which town pigeons are descended) and little egrets. Photo below. Winds gusted up to F6 apparent from the NW, I was solo, unreefed and unballasted. As can be seen from the chart below, I exceeded theoretical maximum hull speed for quite long periods, especially on the way back when I was sailing against a northerly current of up to a knot. 4.5nm in under an hour.