20.00    09.09.08

A frustrating motor sail in light airs was finally broken early today with the wind

veering and lifting allowing us to stop the engine and sail at a fast pace. As a result

our ETA  for Malta, if the wind holds, is mid morning of the 10th. We had considered

going straight past Malta and on to Sardinia but having caught up time since leaving Ios we

can now look forward to seeing Valletta again! We already have discovered spares

for the boat we need and having had our email computer blow up without warning we

will see if we can get this fixed or at least the hard drive transferred to a new one whilst

there. We loved our visit to Malta at the start of our first circumnavigation - the people

we met could not have been friendlier or more helpful so would have been sorry to

have had to pass it by....