We have booked another week here in the Marina. Several reasons really apart from the fact it is cheap! The fridge and freezer seemed to run best when the battery charger was switched on whereas they should run a couple of days just on the battery. Peter opened up the wiring box and found some wires needed replacing so with the help of Adrian an English electrician who is on a Contessa 32 called Blue Moon he was able to remedy this. Fridge is now working as it should so should keep everything cold whilst we are at sea!
Have heard from Jenny to say she and Bill have a week off work early October so they are flying out to Tenerife (south) on 30 Septmber to join us at San Miguel Marina as it is near to the airport. They will stay 3/4 nights on the boat then in a hotel for the rest of the week.
We had intended to go to Mogan and anchor outside the Marina (which we understand is expensive)as the South West coastline is supposed to be very scenic but after talking to another sailor Ludo, who is a Belgian but speaks good English as he worked in London for 2 years,we changed our mind as the swell can affect the anchorage.We may get a bus to take a look at this coast instead.
So we have taken the extra days here to do more little jobs like getting sail numbers made and replacing the zip in a cockpit cushion which had come apart. Hopefully the sail loft can do these before th weekend!
Peter found a really good shop yesterday with a huge selection of tools and hardware and he got really excited about the choice!! We may get some extra mossie netting as the screens are starting to wear and may need replacing at some stage.The sunshade in the aft cabin now does not slide as the spring went whilst cleaning it! At least the mossie side works!
Entertained another Peter who is on a Catamaran here and doing the ARC and Ludo the Belgian on Sunday night just for drinks and nibbles which made a nice change.
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