Whisper Cove Marina

Today we picked up a mooring buoy belonging to Whisper Cover Marina. This is a lovely French run Marina and restauarant with an excellent butcher and meat shop. I ordered several steaks and other meat cuts to be collected tomorrow all frozen and ready to pop straight in our freezer. We arrived this morning about 10am having left Le Phare Bleu around 9am and went ashore in our dinghy to visit the meat shop and book a table for dinner and brunch on Sunday. Back on the boat we relaxed and rested. Just as we were getting ready to go ashore for dinner we noticed the dinghy was deflated on one side! So outboard engine off and we hoisted the dinghy on board to investigate. The rubber had come unstuck at the front so Peter attempted a repair but it did not work. So....we called up the Marina and a very kind man called Silva came over to collect us and also took us back to the boat after dinner which was by the way excellent (as you would expect from the French!). So tomorrow Peter has a task to repair the dinghy. If not we just have to get another lift ashore with Silva. There is a firm that repairs inflatable dinghys here .....in Le Phare Bleu where we have just come from!! Maybe he can visit us here? Anyway if Peter cannot make the glue stick we have to get the dinghy professionally repaired on Tuesday as it is Easter holidays now. Easter Day and Peter has stuck a patch on the dinghy so we will have to see if it holds whilst we go ashore to the Marina for Brunch. We had a lovely buffet with roast beef and roast ham salads and even eggs bacon and sausages! We shared a table with a couple from Denmark who had their boat on the dock in the Marina. They have their son staying with them for 2 weeks before their boat gets hauled out for the summer and they fly back to Denmark. Their boat is called Pura Vida meaning pure life. After lunch we checked the dinghy and it had deflated a little so a bit of air was required to get us back to the boat. Once back on board Peter stuck some more glue on another patch and we will leave the dinghy inflated on the deck overnight to see if it holds...fingers crossed!! Tomorrow we will motor around the corner to Prickly Bay which is where the Budget Marine chandlery is and Peter can buy more boat bits. There is always something you think you need for the boat - even if it is only more dinghy repair kit!!