Thursday, August 20, 2009

And meanwhile, back in England...



Well, yes, we have been in England for a while. Only just seem to have found the time to get the computer fully fired up.

We pulled into Falmouth, just after Customs had boarded us, on 16th July. Since we weren't arrested, I guess we didn't have anything suspicious on board. It was pouring with rain, so typical July summer weather!

Since then, we've scraped our bottom, and had a new mainsail made. The sail was fitted yesterday, and the Genoa was put onto the new roller furler. This gives a bit of a clue to some of the repairs.

The trip from the Azores was fantastic for marine life, dolpins, pilot whales and two humpback whales.

We have lots of photos of the hole in the water where the dolphin was - stunning viewing. All we need to do now is figure out how to reduce the size of the video we took, and then we can post some of them up here.