21 September

A bit of rain, a bit of sunshine, a couple of doggy walks on shore, nothing much happened today as yu can see. Have a look at the newly shot pics and you'll agree that this is a fine place to take a breath and wait for the SW to decrease and then hopefully to veer.

22 September

I could carbon copy the lines above, except there actually was sunny, and even quite warm, all afternoon. Indian summer? I undertook a few of those hard works a cruising sailor has to do as I have previously informed you. The vane for the selfsteering system (wind vane) made of plywood broke a couple of days ago due to an uncontrolled jibe. As you can see on a picture, I drilled a new hole and turned it upside down. That will do for the rest of the trip. During the winter, I will make a few more of those to carry as spares. Sinc it's made ut of 6 mm ply it doesn't take mych force to break it.
I discovered that couple of the halyards had been fouled with the deck light on the mast and then got tangled up with each other. This must have happened when I motored the last half mile or so to this port. The seas were quite high as the wind speed, so the halyards were flying around a fair bit. With the mast steps though, it's an easy task to climb the mast and fix this. All in all these chores kept me busy for half an hour or thereabout. This sure is a tough job. As a bonus I was invited for a Calvados to a neighbouring yacht here afterwards. Do I really want to leave this place at all?