We had no idea we would leave Altair for so long! We really should’ve prepared her better for such a long respite because she is a complete mess!

All the canvas was off so she was naked, sunburned in fact, and we could sort’ve see the black stuff running down the hull, not the usual vertical rust stripes! The worst so far was what we could not see at 11p last night! We arrived with 5 duffle bags that were stuffed to the point of bursting their seams with the ‘stuff’ we had to have from the states, so we couldn’t move. We had to share the space with the dodger frame, all the cockpit cushions, jerry cans and now this.

We had a broken hinge on the old, decrepit center hatch which was a long time coming, our dingy was flat as a pancake and we were greeted by stinky, black, persistent and rampant MOLD EVERYWHERE!!!

It was too late to do anything now, there were sheets on the bed so we crashed in what we imagined to be a fluffy, thin veil of mold under our resting bods.

HOLY COW!!! Guess we should’ve gotten some damp-rid buckets, ya think?

Dudley and Bec


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