Horta for yachts
18 June 2022 | Wonderful Horta
Ian Sales | Rubbish
It’s late, G is asleep here in the saloon. The stern cabin is untenable due to the 15-20 knot wind blowing on to our port quarter. Therefore we are living in the saloon as the cockpit is alternating between cold and cold and wet. I’m normally a glass half full sort of guy but the prospect of bouncing up and down on or rafted out from the quay for the next few days in 15-20 NE is daunting. Frenchy on the inside, large cat is going either late tomorrow or early Monday, and Krauty the yacht we are alongside not long after. So us with virtually no engine power and the wind from behind blowing us onto the boats in front could be in deep doodoo. Today we did some shopping. No way G can get across these boats to shore as the cat has tapered sides so we use the dinghy which is bucking up and down in the chop. I was making good all electrical connections and checking the batteries. All seemed OK but who knows if it has sorted it. More checks tomorrow and I’m debating whether to take off the lift pump and try and improve it as I still think that is the cause of the power loss. It doesn’t help to hear of 30C at home when we have true UK summer weather here with drizzle and a cold NE breeze giving us 19C. So we will be glad to leave here as there is no space anywhere. We can’t anchor which would be more comfortable as the company that does the servicing etc will only look at you alongside, so we have to endure the bumping around. One positive though, had we taken another day we would never had made it against this wind. Better to be in port wishing you were out than out wishing you were in. However even better if all the boat systems worked. I must have upset Doc about the jellyfish as he has renamed me the Atlantic Bodger, a suitable sobriquet.