Haggis Hunter goes South
| Vessel Name: | Haggis Hunter |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Moody 36 |
| Hailing Port: | Port Edgar |
| Crew: | Peter, Margaret and Millie |
24 March 2012 | Paderne
The end of the line
This really is the end of the line. I signed the Bill of Sale for Haggis Hunter yesterday and she is now of to her new home in Gibraltar. Later her new owners intend setting of into the Mediterranean for a few years so she will of on her travels again soon and perhaps a new blog too.
28 April 2011 | Ferreiras
Time for an update
Since the last post the weather has been goo except for last week when Alison and Chris came out to visit. Almost as soon as their plane touched down the rain started and it was on and of till they left. They are not great sun worshippers so it didn't really make that much difference for them. We had [...]
10 April 2011 | Ferreiras
Getting Settled in
We are now getting properly settled in, finding the best places to shop, pay the bills etc.
24 March 2011 | Ferreiras
Back again
I suspect everyone is wondering where we have been. Shortly after our last post we decided that living on board was not the best option and that it was time to put Haggis Hunter on the market. We then started looking at rented accommodation and found the place we are now in. It is a very nice quite new [...]
16 February 2011 | Albufeira
Woops it's 2 weeks since my last post
Didn't realise it had been so long since I posted something. We are settling in to having a car and now trying not to use it too much, but the freedom is great. We went to a Country and Western lunch and afternoon at Silves a small town a bit west of here that has a dramatic castle in the middle of the [...]
After the Storm
Despite the weather we managed to get in a fair bit of socialising with some of Maggies new chums from the charity shop coming down on Saturday evening for drinks, ad a couple we met who are at the camp-site came for drinks again on Sunday. We had a quiet day today and went for a walk to get some info on a hotel for May who is hoping to come out again for a month in March.
The real drama was on the way back, as we were walking into the marina I spotted what looked like a sunken yacht, closer inspection proved me right There were just the two masts of a schooner sticking out of the water. There was a team working on raising her with flotation bags and we stood and watched, getting colder as the sun set, as she slowly came up again. They then moved her from the berth to the lifting berth. They seemed to be having a lot of problems getting the lifting strops on and as it was almost dark and we couldn't really see what was happening we left then.
We hope to get the whole story tomorrow so watch this space
