Very wet and windy

Sunday
20th January On
Friday the weather started to change. The wind’s been building, and a succession
of heavy showers have hurtled over the hill and blasted through the anchorage.
By day the sheets of rain are clearly visible both in the air and as a line on
the water before they arrive. Even while still calm where we are, the sound of
the wind in upwind boats rigging, coupled with the whistling of a dozen wind
generators is quite startling. Then the gust arrives, the boat dances round and
strains to the anchor, and there’s just time to close the hatches before the
deck’s awash. By night, there's just a sudden awakening as the boat leaps around
and the rigging howls. It’s meant enforced inside boat jobs – some
varnishing, electrical stuff and servicing the forward heads. The owners of all
these super-yachts just haven’t lived, never having had to change the piston
plunger on a Par pump toilet. As
compensation, we went to France for Sunday lunch today – excellent. We sat for
three hours in a little restaurant and went through the card – Menu Degustation:
Rolled salmon and mahi carpaccio, Seafood brochette or mixed grill, Chocolat
fondant with ice cream, all washed down by the house white. Even a soaking on the way back in the
dinghy couldn’t dampen the moment. |