We woke up a few times in the night, but I slept well. I don't know if you remember the festival last year and the noise late at night, but we had the right to a techno bar during the night. It is still less loud, but on the water, “the sound carries”. Louis loved the music. For the rest, a little cold, because he wanted to leave the cockpit door open to continue changing the air but that's fine. At least there were no mosquitoes. I just don't want to get out of bed and my skin experiences 10 degrees (approximately). I can hear Louis snoring next door, he had a bad back last night, he pushed a little too much yesterday for a first day, but it allowed us to make some room, to take out the sails and use the heavy and old battery charger from the time of Methuselah. We even had electricity to put music on PM, so we're not going to criticize it too much. Don't trust the packaging!
I hear the wind. It did not happen often last summer that we heard the wind in the Azores because there was little. So we did little sailing. But there, this morning, I wonder how windy it is, but my internet isn't working right now. Anyway we have engine problems, it still does not start. We tried before going to bed. The engine starts but it stops. Louis thinks there's air in the pipes, so he'll have to check that today.
We were walking yesterday to go to the food truck or maybe it was when we went to buy the little charger and I told him that we forget easily in life. That we both know/knew that you can never predict on a boat. We can plan a big day of work but in the end it doesn't work like that. There are always unexpected things on a boat. We have to follow his rhythm. So there, we will go one step at a time and we will leave, if we leave, when we leave. First step will be the engine I believe. Then it would be to set sail and do the shopping (groceries, diesel, etc.), a little cleaning. But who knows what the day has in store for us!
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The engine works!! I learned lots of things. He knows things my Louis!
2nd step: go shopping. We are looking for a taxi but it is busy on the lines or as it is noon, no one in the offices to help us with that. Louis talks to people in the parking lot, a lady is going to swim but her husband with her little girl offers to bring us to get diesel and leave us at the grocery store. It's very nice of him. We therefore discuss on the way and it turns out that it is a fisherman who goes out in heavy weather (more paying and fewer boats). He would like to learn sailing and do his Yacht Master course (required in Europe to rent a boat). We exchange our numbers and we buy groceries. Louis doesn't have WhatsApp and Armando wants to talk to him so he comes back to the supermarket and finds Louis inside to tell him that he's going to eat with his family and that if he's needed on the way back, he'll be back. wow! So we eat at Burger King next door and wait for it. He then comes back and helps us bring everything to the boat. A charming man! Really nice! An enthusiast too! Tomorrow is Father's Day here, so he'll be around with his family. We may see him again, especially since we forgot a bag of groceries in his car with all our candy and chocolate, but also the ketchup for my sandwiches:) there's no way I'm converting to Mayo.
We are starting to install the mainsail because we would like to leave tomorrow, but the wind is blowing a lot (30-40 km/h). We finally let it go after installing the sliders and securing the mainsail. We finish tidying up the inside of the boat. We take a “drink” and while I am writing to you, Louis is resting with his eyes closed.
Tomorrow morning will be windy and rainy. Tomorrow afternoon will be fine and a little less windy. We're going to eat in another food truck before checking the weather forecast for the next few days and seeing when we'll be leaving.
Just in case we leave quickly, you should be able to find the link to follow us on the ocean in our old posts. I'll try to find it for you before I leave, but just in case, you'll have a Plan B.
I will give you news made at destination and by then if possible.
Oh, while I think about it. It's so windy here, and it's getting sand everywhere. Even in our grocery bags the time to get them into the boat.
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