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Sunday, 21 June 2009

Hoisting foresail, mainsail and bum shot!

Friday, 19 June 2009

TopTipOf The Day

If you happen to have an onboard cat, I would recommend the worming course before you install the cat on the boat. Administer the worming tablets or paste and wait a good 48 hours. This is turn will avoid any projectile matter hitting any area of your vessel.

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

BACK ON THE WATER; WHERE BOATS BELONG



From the dust to the sea, the trolley to the water. We do eventually reap our rewards, as 'she' was gently reversed back to where she rightly belongs. Afloat. Like some majestic swan, we ease away from the pontoons and motor out to the anchorage, with smiles so wide that by the time we arrive off the island, the facial muscles are beginning to ache. A very pleasant ache at that!

The anchorage is vast, with reasonable holding, though you maybe wise to put out a tripping line as the seabed is rather littered with a variety of maritime rubbish.

What's a bonus, is there is heaps of space here for scope, you rarely find another has anchored far too close to hear the blades of their wind generator driving one potty.

The inhabitants on the island are a unique community. I am only just getting to know them, with the invaluable help of an ex islander, who is also visiting this summer.

As we ate and drank our way through most of Sunday, feasting on a mixture of grilled cuttlefish and spider crab I was told a hilarious story of when The Pope visited the people of Peniche. 39º21'N 9º22'W

The Pope, obviously wasn't prompted on the art of correct pronunciation and upon addressing the people, what he wanted to say was. 'O povo de Peniche' (To the people of Peniche) when in actual fact, what he ended up saying was 'O povo de Penís' (To the people of Penis)

Not a dry eye in the house! Was it a pre organised faux pas I wonder??? Simply hysterical and I had to pick myself up from rolling around in the cockpit.

Once more, you couldn't make that up!

ILHA DA CULATRA, OLHÂO





Saturday, 6 June 2009