We decided to have a couple of quiet days before Charles arrives on Sunday but nevertheless work is still progressing. Sherman was on board for the day and we have nearly finished cleaning up after the docking. The blue dust from the sanding, aided by the wind seems to have got everywhere. BM from Mr chippy was also on board having found some Lexon to replace the cracked window. That job has now been completed and we are only left with the spray cover for the main hatchway. Mohamed has completed the frame and the sail maker will run up the cover on Monday. Jens on Flying Duckman which is berthed opposite us had a bad day – whilst dismantling on of his primary winches it pooped apart (they are spring loaded) and one of the bearing vanished into the water. He spent a couple of hours diving until he was lucky enough to find it. The benefits of putting a cardboard box around the winch before releasing the screws will never be forgotten. We made a short reconnaissance to Jolly Harbour so that Kuki could see what was available in the supermarket and we some lunch at the wharf café. It was interesting that Jolly Harbour was still busy with Yachts everywhere whilst Falmouth is now virtually empty. Most of the yachts in Falmouth are charter vessels and therefore are heading across to the Mediterranean for the European summer whilst those at Jolly harbour remain local to Antigua and will be coming out of the water for storage there. As the day cooled down we drove over to Half Moon Bay where we spent some time watching a photo shoot with para surfers – quite amazing to watch. On the way back we stopped of at Nelsons Dockyard for a drink – it was deadly quiet there – and then back to the Cat Club for a drink at the bar with some of the crews and Dick Morgan who owns and Oyster registered in Cardiff. In talking to the skippers we decided that we would go around the North of the Island on the way out as that would avoid having to motor sail head to wind as far as Green Island and give us a run then a reach onto our Atlantic course. The distance is little different that the southerly route and by heading clockwise around the island we should have a comfortable start to the passage. Again we had an early night – Kuki decided her head was spinning by 2000 so after some of David’s food we headed back to the boat. Kuki is now pretty acclimatised to the boat so we will be eating in from now on. She has also made friends with one of the girls that works with David and they are taking off on Sunday to look at local vegetables. Now that the topsides are clean John is going to make a start on installing the netting to the for’d rails on Saturday as he would like to get that out of the way and the whisker pole can then go onto its sea going stowage whenever we want.