Coleman Sailing Trip 2019

Got up fairly early (8:30 but still feels like 2 hours earlier) and went straight to the big supermarket.     We filled a trolley to the brim and got a taxi back to the marina.     The charge for the taxi seems to have gone up from 10 Euro to 15.    But we had a huge load that we couldn’t have bought so cheaply in the marina. We hadn’t had any breakfast because we had no food but despite buying breakfast stuff we decided to eat out and have a brunch.  Back to the boat where it is stinking hot again.  I unpack the food that I hadn’t put in the fridge and that just about did me in. Richard washed down the outside of the boat and then pumped up the dinghy for the first time this year!  And we were off at 1:30pm.  I think this is a record time to leave the marina after arrival. We have left just over 36 hours from arrival. No wind is forecast and Richard hasn’t even bothered to take the cover off the ma...

Well, now back on the boat.  We flew in last night.  The flight was delayed by an hour because of flight control problems at Gatwick.  So we didn’t get to the boat until midnight local time.  We just made up the bed and fell into it.  We had a meal at the airport so food didn’t seem important. We got up at 9am (which with the time difference felt like 7am) to do our chores and be ready for the man who did our wood work (more later) to come.  We have no food on board so we took the washing left over from July to the laundry and then had breakfast in one of the cafés.  The problem is that it is terribly hot.  The forecast is for 34C and it almost feels like that already. Back at the boat I manage to unpack, but then just fell asleep on the bed under the fan for over half an hour. So the wood work.  We have had a man re-varnish the whole of the companion way.  It was in a sta...