WIld Song and I are now alongside in a pretty deserted early season little marina in Lajes de Flores, thanks to the cheerful lads on the pilot-boat which towed us round. `I am having a ham and tomato sandwich: the first tomato for six weeks. Tiago gave me a lift up to the shop - it's a one horse place, but food! I can get water and electricity here, and with some difficulty can refuel, and will try to fix the filter problem.
Everything is in a mess, wet and salty; a lot to be done. But there's no weather-window for getting to Horta until Friday anyway , and I won't go until the forecast gives me a reaching wind to motor-sail the 120 miles with staysails. No sailmaker here for the main, and it's beyond my repairing, so that'll have to be at Horta.
Meanwhile the tomato sandwich is...glorious!!!