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Whisper
Noel Dilly
Sun 19 Aug 2012 18:51
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"Friday - 17th
August"
A very gentle day after last nights Farewell Dinner. Several boats left this morning, but despite last nights farewells there are many of us still about. We were invited to coffee and cake on one of the boats this morning it is amazing just how many people one can get on a 40ft yacht! The rest of the day was spent doing the inevitable washing and dressing the ship with it, as the dryer was useless and ridiculously expensive. Trying to keep it all from parting company with our boat and fixing itself to another was a challenge. The people next door moved, I think that they thought they had moored next to a family of gypsies! Whisper's various engine lights raised concern the other day, so we plan to change the oil filter and oil as a precaution and hopefully fix the problem tomorrow. As it is Sunday tomorrow and everywhere will be closed we decided to "dig out" our Engine Spares box to make sure we had an oil filter and also to find the oil pump which we need to remove the old oil. We located the pump and the numerous (6 in total) filters, unfortunately they were all fuel filters which had come with Whisper. So the hunt was on, friends in the UK came up trumps with filters and the name and address etc of an agent in Vigo and Spanish friends from the Rally, who live in Vigo but work in Baiona, will collect one for us and deliver it to Baiona for our arrival next Wednesday. Where would we all be without friends? Aren't they something special? We ate dinnner at English hour and had an early night! "Saturday - 18th August" Another gentle day, supermarket shopping with our trusty trolley! Followed by a stroll around the town. It appears to be a fishing festival here this weekend. All the fishing boats in the harbour are dressed overall with flags. A market is filling the streets, various types of music is played continuously from the marquee, even what sounded like a sea-shanty wafted over the harbour to the marina. I don't know if it was a song sailors sung whilst weighing anchor or whilst pulling in the nets but there were many many verses! Numerous explotions set off car alarms with their vibrations. The smell of grilled sardines filled the air. An enormously long queue of people wound its way to the raising smoke waiting patiently to sample them, the line was so long I think that the sardines may have been free! I was only sad that we had been unable to sample them as planned for our bar-b-que at the Hydro-electric station they smelt so good, we certainly did not want to join the end of the queue here! To-night we have been invited to eat paella onboard one of the only three remaining boats of the Rally. It will be a lot of fun I am sure. |