22nd July Sitges to Barcelona
Sealion
Richard Martin
Thu 23 Jul 2009 12:20
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Again we set off in nearly no wind, dispite some
strong winds ealrly in the morning. The sea was anything but calm. A swell from
the NE got bigger as the morning progressed until the final hour along 6 miles
of harbour wall surrounding Barcelona the boat rolled quite significantly - The
swell was bouncing off the walls and making it even more confused.
Just as we entered the harbour entrance for Port
Vell the engine sudenly hesitated as though running out of fuel - it soon became
apparent that the problem was the propellor - something had clearly got caught
on it (dispite the rope cutter). The net result was that we appeared to have no
forward thrust but could reverse very slowly - any more than tick over and we
got serious vibration. So we slowly went backwards the next half mile or so into
the marina. The marina were a great, sending us a small boat to help us manouvre
into our berth,
The marina gave me the phonre number of a dive
company who promptly suggested a fee of 2600 euros - needless to say I declined
and have now found a locally/unofficial guy who hopefully will go down tonight
for 50 euros and see what the problem is.
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