Sunday - 22 July 2018

We knew that we would have to spend the day in port waiting for Chris to in the evening, so we used the time to do some maintenance activities. We have brought several things with us from the UK, and we spent useful time installing them.  Some were easy jobs, like the replacement for a mug that had decided to go for a swim, somewhere during the trip from Lymington, while others were more complicated. I fitted a new cleat to the lifelines, and generally did other maintenance to ensure that they are correctly tensioned around the boat.  I also fitted a new interior to one of the jammers that had been allowing its rope to slip. We had bought the replacement interior and fitting it was not too much of a problem.  Getting the line that ran through it to fit was a bigger issue.  The line was almost exactly the same diameter as the hole, and so it was impossible to run the line and a mousing line to pull the larger line through, simultaneously.  Eventually we found a way to get the line through and now we will see if it still slips.  The old innards have gone into the emergency stocks.  We also refitted all of the safety gear that gets stowed below deck while we are away, and did some more work to progress the use of the boats computer.  This has been a much longer process than I had expected, but preparatory work while we were at home allow this to more a step or two further on.

The shops were all closed, it being Sunday, but we dropped into the marina office, and Pedro was insistent that we went to the beach, "it is only 15 metres away", so we went and sat for a while. The beach was full of families relaxing and enjoying the weather and doing exactly the sort of things that people do the world over on the beach. In the bay we watched a water-skiers skiing behind a jet ski. I don't think I have seen this before, it is usually a rather larger boat.  One of the water skiers was very proficient, the other rather less so, and he took several attempts to get up.

During all of the this we started to receive messages from Chris to say that his flight was delayed again.  This was a worry as there was a finite limit between his arrival time and the departure of the last bus to Muros from Santiago de Compostella, where his flight was arriving.  When he touched down it was sufficiently close that we concluded that a taxi from the airport was the only certain solution, this this is what he did.  As a result he arrived about an hour earlier than the bus would got him to us, tired, fed up and hungry.  We had been into town earlier and found that various stalls had been erected selling for example, a local variety of empanade. We had bought this either to feed Chris, or to have for lunch in the future.  It eventually served both purposes, and was ready to eat on arrival, which was greatly appreciated.

Distance covered today	0	nautical miles
Trip distance covered	0	nautical miles
Distance covered 2018	1451	nautical miles

Steve (and Tricia)