Cagliari (Horseshoes, smoke and bread)

Pyxis
Karen & Richard
Fri 6 Feb 2009 00:00

Friday 6th February – Cagliari (Horsehoes, smoke and bread)

39:12.064N 9:07.510E

 

With the forecast threatening to close in over the next few days Richard set off to the supermarket for a few fresh supplies; as ever it provided an excuse to visit the chandleries though neither of them had the electrical connectors he wanted.

 

This afternoon he finished overhauling the two horseshoe buoys that we have on the back of Pyxis.  This involved refitting the two lights having checked their bulbs and batteries and resealed them, and refitting the two drogues having made repairs to one of them and replaced the other.  When we arrived in Cagliari we discovered that the lines holding the drogues had totally disintegrated in the sun over the summer causing one of the drogues to have been lost and the other to need new lines.  Whilst in the UK we bought a new drogue at the boat show and more cord at the chandlery to repair the other one.

 

At lunchtime I put some washing out just as an engineer turned up to look at the engine on the motor boat opposite.  I found out that he had arrived when he started the engine - it poured out a stream of black smoke and diesel fumes which filled Pyxis down below as well as being blown over my wet washing – the wind was blowing the wrong way.

 

Well I shot up on deck, got my washing in, ‘lost it’ at the engineer and stomped back down below (I simply expressed my view that he should have warned me before turning the engine on – a view which I think he understood despite not speaking a word of English).  I then realised that the washing was going to smell just as bad in the cockpit as it did outside and went to put it out again.  Luckily the engineer finished soon afterwards and disappeared so the washing recovered and dried in peace.

 

Later I tried making more bread in my bread maker.  This time it turned out much better – hopefully I’m getting the hang of it J