Boats-Bloody boats
Yellsound of Lerwick
stuart and linda byron
Tue 27 Jul 2010 20:54
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Hi All
Well, Thought we were set for summer cruising and then the dreaded phone
call from Glasgow with Lindas Mum admitted to Hospital in the middle of the
night. So back to Port la Foret and in two days back in Glasgow for the duration
of June and the first week of July until Lindas Mum made recovery
from a nasty pulmonary embolism nearly resulting in death by drowning with
nearly a litre of fluid being drained from the lungs. She was very unwell
and yellsound was not the place to be.
life for us is never dreary -so where do we
begin. arrived back at the Marina 10 days ago after good journey
down to Brockley, over nighter with Mike and Suzy and then great drive through
to Port La Foret. - only for our Loo to jam again first time in
use. so back to rubber gloves and sponge etc. Partially fixed and
only half power output so going to require new unit. Also Generator
on for 5 mins until cut out and would not start. No oil so topped up
and restarted, ran for two minutes and cut out- no Oil again.
so discovered a corroded oil pipe spewing oil out once generator was running so
with plastic metal and duct tape, temporary fix made. Have now got replacement
part- 6 inches long and 140 euros worse off . Bloody boats!
Suzy and Mike flew in last Saturday so picked them
up at Brest and back to PLF. Left for Glenans on Sunday and spent two
nights anchored off the sandy beaches and explored the islands except in an
inter island passage, we ran aground due to wrongly calibrated depth
sounder. Luckily on neaps and an hour off low tide on sandy seabed
but still quite a list - so two hours later back upright
again.
 Next day, planned to go to L'orient to visit the
Eric Tabarly Museum and half way there motorsailing in 6/7 knots of wind, the
engine died- fuel pump not working and no fuel getting to injectors- so up
with Cruising Chute,about turn and downwind run/broad reach at 3 knots to the
waiting buoys outside the entrance to PLF. Suzy helming rounding up to the
buoy beautifully and thus secure for the evening. Next morning, the Marina
workboat towed us into the Marina where Mike and I stripped off the fuel
pump/injection pump. We discovered two retaining screws missing and once
replaced and change of fuel filter had the engine back up and running-
eight hours later tho. Suzy and Mum had walked into Concarneau so Mike
and I joined them for a celebratory drink to our engineering
skills.
 Thursday saw us back to Glenan for a seafood dinner
at the local island restaurant- Crab,moules and
Snapper- delicious.
Also heard from Stevie that wedding is to be in St
Andrews on 2nd July next with St Salvadors chapel and the reception venue
booked. so delighted with both venue and timings etc. Stevie and
Sabrina visiting for weekend at beginning of September so will be joining
them to see venues etc- exciting. Friday was back to PLF with MIke
and Suzy returning to London yesterday. We are currently anchored at Port Manesch as we set off this morning
on our cruising plan for the next five weeks down to gulf of Morbihan and
back- weather seems set fair so we may be able to break the100 miles
cruised so far this year- Geriatric sailing of 12miles or so at any one time-
last of the big adventurers!
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