Lagos
1000knights
Wed 8 Sep 2010 18:03
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Wednesday 8th September
We arrived in Lagos yesterday about lunchtime after an
uneventful overnight motor sail from Cascais. Lagos has a superb
marina and facilities with a lot of nice cafes and restaurants around it.
Sadly Simon left us today and we will miss him. His experience was a great
asset, particularly to the Skipper. Thank you Simon for your company and
for your rigorous keeping of the log, something the Skipper seems to
forget! We enjoyed a final breakfast before Simon went to catch his
bus. The English breakfasts here are right on the mark and since custard
tarts are now a thing of the past Mark and I felt obliged to keep the English
end up!
We then had a morning of domestic bliss cleaning and
washing and, Jenny, now that washing machines have been explained to me by the
Maintenance Manager here I am an expert ( I might regret telling you
that).
The engineer arrived around lunchtime and I am optimistic
that tomorrow he will have sorted the watermaker and serviced the engine.
We have done over 170 hours motoring since Lymington and covered 1020 odd
miles.
This afternoon we went for a swim on the lovely beach
nearby except we got bitten by little bitey things, Mark was most
upset. Mark leaves us in the morning and is keen to have
lobster before he goes, we have promised him sardines at a little local
restaurant on the way to the beach. As always he has been good
company and Anthony and I will miss him.
The good news is that tomorrow Lawrence and James arrive.
Both are keen sailors with Lawrence having much experience of big boats and
James is an accomplished dinghy sailor and both are very good
helms. We might be able to give George Pilot a rest, he has been working
very hard for the last three weeks and I do not want him to get ideas of
overtime. Hopefully we will get some fair winds to take us to Las
Palmas. We plan to depart Lagos on Friday all being well.
Richard
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