Still waiting for the weather so we took an excursion up the cable car to sample the black cloud hanging over us....On the far side we could see nothing but it looked rather dramatic looking towards Spain.

On Strangetrader, all the winches (6) have now all been serviced – lots of vital looking parts toothbrushed clean and reassembled with the help of a few photos. Then today it was the turn of the bilge pumps and all three of them now work again after a fair amount of fiddling and cleaning and then testing by filling up the bilges with the hosepipe and wondering where exactly all the water was going to? Well, we weren’t paddling and as we added a bit of fairy liquid we could see the marina fill with bubbles, so glad to know we could get rid of it...

This morning we got up early and watched a replica of HMS  Pickle leave for Hull. She was having a send off with a naval escort. She apparently was the ship sent back with the news that Nelson had been killed at Trafalgar which changed the course of history.. they are taking her back to Hull and laying wreaths at the Trafalgar and Cadiz. It looks rather basic on board.