Musical Boats
leeonsea
Lee Price
Sat 14 Jun 2008 11:46
Myself and my french neighbour through my bad french and his better english managed to translate everyones requirements and the implications of to everyone involved so;
Boat A moved alongside Boat B so that Boat C could leave. Further up Boat D moved alongside Boat E so that Boats F & G could leave. But before Boat G could leave they had to have an inspection by the Policia and as Boat D was now alongside Boat H and as Boat H also wanted to leave Boat D came alongside Boat I (Thats me) for a bit until Boat G left. Then Boat D went alongside the Harbour wall and Boat A was pulled past me and alongside Boat D. It all took from 0830 till 1130 and was quite a challange in the new heat of this wonderfully sunny day.
While we we're waiting for the Policia on Boat G, Boat D (thats 'Amoul Solo') and I had a chat in my bad french, his non existant english and hand signals. Turns out they needed to be alongside the Harbour wall as they had lost their forestay 200miles from the Acores en-route from the Carribean. Very lucky to have not lost the mast or luckier still not to have lost the forestay 500miles out as without it they had not managed to fly sail and had therefore had to motor the last two days to port. They we're now waiting on a very expensive repair.
All great excitment and it has given me my first itch to leave. Until now I've known I have to depart but have not been to keen to get going, now, watching all the sail in the harbour this morning, I'm keen to get going again.
For some reason my Alternator has gone from Cologne Germany to Maia Portugal and back to Cologne again, I hope this isn't going to delay things. Wonderful thing online tracking though.
L.