Here I am busying myself with boat maintenance and moored across from me is the most sorry looking collection of dilapidated sailing vessels I’ve ever seen. Why isn’t someone looking after them? A mystery which was only recently resolved while chatting to locals. They are the confiscated property of drug runners plying their trade between [...]
Hurray! Eileen of Avoca is insured for yet another year of wandering. No mean feat because insurance companies usually don’t like little boats venturing too far. I have to stress that a Yarmouth23 is no ordinary 23 footer, but the efficient staff at Velos Insurance (www.velosinsurance.co.uk) pulled through yet again and I now have comprehensive [...]
I’ve been sheltering in the port of Almerimar on La Costa Del Sol for the past month. Regular, and poorly forecast storms with with Force 8 winds are making cruising somewhat impractical so I’ve assigned myself to boat maintenance duty. I’ve made a temporary mount for my Rutland 504 wind turbine out of a fishing [...]
Well I didn’t expect to get stuck in the south of Spain for the winter, but there is no point pursuing a planned itinerary when the weather is so disagreeable. I’ll just have to be fatalistic (quid erit, erit …) and accept that I wont be moving until Poseidon wills it. My plans must change. [...]
