Well, as you know, the plan was to make the less-than-epic voyage down the coast to Bayonne and theoretically, I should be there now. I’m not. I had noticed even before leaving Portsmouth that the engine was very smoky and made a mental note to have it checked. As I prepared to leave for Bayonne yesterday, the engine failed to start so I’m going to take the opportunity while I’m here on a pontoon to have it sorted out professionally. I’ve made good friends here already and I’ve just heard that John’s friend Stephan can come and take a look tomorrow at 1000hrs.

If he can fix it then, I’ll get away on tomorrow afternoon’s high tide heading straight for what I expect will be a very brief stop at Bayonne. I’m really anxious to get going though so I may start adding a couple more long-distance options to the next dice choices.

So for now, sorry but the voyage has been temporarily interrupted although, to be honest, I’m not in any hurry and there are worse places to be involuntarily detained!

Bee

Rob Clark

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