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On solid ground?

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We are now parked in Cleopatra Marina. The lift out was seamless and all went well. As`M appeared through the hatch this morning the Austrian chap on the starboard side of us said ' Good Morning. Did the earth move for you last night?'  She looked somewhat lost for words. It became a little easier when he added .. ' the earthquake ja?'. Needless to say that we knew nothing about it, but apparently it was a fairly substantial one at 6.8 on the Richter scale and occurred only a little further south near Zakinthos. Apparently it was quite dramatic with several strong aftershocks but we were unaware. Things seem to move spontaneously when you have been afloat for a while. We seemed to be the only ones who had not woken up and fretted about it, but fortunately there seemed to be no repercussions here. Dominos? With many millions of pounds worth of kit propped up on wooden blocks and various bits of gantry, it is pretty amazing that nothing fell o