We have arrived in our winter home!

It was great to be able to sail for our last trip of the season although we weren't expecting a F6 which kindly got even stronger as we arrived. No surprises there then!

The wind was from astern so it was an easy genny sail, as we entered the marina a marinero in a dinghy was there to meet us. We asked if he could push us in as we don't go backwards too well. 'Ah but I'm on my own' he replied. Eeeek! As it turned out there were no other boats in yet along where our berth was so we had plenty of space to faff about. We got Emerald turned and stern to the pontoon, only problem was we were still a way off our berth. The nimble marinero jumped back in his dinghy and a combination of him pushing us sideways and a bit of astern and we were in.

Plenty of space either side, no different to being against a finger pontoon and having another boat next to us. The homemade gangplank works well and Colin built two big eyes into the new arch for lines to run to hold the plank off the pontoon.

And so the packing away of the boat begins.... the dinghy is clean and packed away, the sails are off, a months worth of laundry is clean and dry. Time for a bit of fun now.