Jeannius a multihull on the trip with the World ARC arrived last night and tied alongside us. The boat is sailed just by Mike and Jean and they had a tough time comming down from Durban. Whats more, their new generator (installed in that place called Mackay) still does not work. We really have nothing good to say about that place.
Early this morning, Ariane returned to P.E for the second time and Lady Ev VI arrived from Durban, plus a Contest from Holland, she left port yesterday with us, but obviously decided to return also. Goes to show how bad things were out there.
Skipper is just going to have a cup of cocoa. Did you know that cocoa originates from ancient central america, and was originally used as a precious food for the Gods, before being used as a form of payment, it has lost none of its magical flavours over the centuries.
Did you know....................... Croissants were invented by the Viennese Baker "Peter Wender" in 1683, so Croissants and Cocoa, what a lovely combination!
It was a real cloudy miserable morning, and the wind was still honking out of the west, ohh! are we happy to be in out of that? We went to the Y.C. for breakfast, but were too busy with a party, so no joy there again. We will obviously never get to eat in the place.
We did some house work on the boat, did the blog, and emails and generally relaxed in the safety of P.E. Aileen was like a hen on an egg, she does not like hanging around relaxing. So she eventually suggested a trip to the shopping centre to top up her phone (we knew this was just an excuse to get off the boat). BUT, but, skipper knows better than to object having seen this situation millions of times over a life time. Oh yes of course! ordered up the taxi and off we speed to the farthest away centre in town. Eventually, skipper unravelled himself and hates to admit, but enjoyed crawling around all the different shops, and getting some provisions in Woolworths for the next few days.
We returned to the boat, and Aileen cooked a mutton curry with rice. It was awful good and we enjoyed it all washed down with a few glasses of wine. We checked the weather and all looks good for leaving tomorrow morning, so we had a night cap and off to the scratchers zzzzzz
That's all for now,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde ( Skipper )