Its stopped raining snowing & freezing The skys blue the coffee&pannini vert good.the locals kind.Thiis morning i had a shower in the capitanerie,no questions asked!
Lasr night three marine police were looking at the boat only while they unlocked the gate to get to theirs.They wished me a good evening.
Port Vendees thats where i am is wonderful first time ive been hear.
The boat im moveings American &been in Spain before has had to leave France i now know why i was rushed off Stella didnt know the potential problems.
And so im sitting on some stone steps tapping away on my dell x30 a 5 year old pda looking down at the port.
I cleaned & tidyed the boat this morning waiting for the cafe to open.
Am i so desparate that i have to do this?Perhaps yesterday i was for chucking ut in this morning the sun warming the decks a glass of cotedu Rhone put a diferant complection on it not to mention me.I dont function well in snow & freezing winds
Am i mad to go on? The boat a 40y has no charts just a temprimental plotter GPS that put me in the wrong place twice last time 1.6 miles on course to be wrecked had i not stoid off.
I have my Garmin 12 my Spanish Portugal morrocan charts the newest updated 1971 the rest are older!Has Spain changed?There are parts of the coast that do.
I have 168euros about 40liters diesel 60 liters Cote du Rhone 20 liters distilled wine!
I have to deliver the boat to Morroco or Portugal the ,money is with the yard 3000 euros! I get paid when the boat arrived s
My arrival in Spain was a bad start i anchored off took the tender in only to meet an English person When he began talking i didn't understand a word he said he didn't speak well nor when i began to understand where his words pleasant
He told me i couldent tie up couldent anchor & couldent have any water.He saw the water can.
I thanked him went for a welcome stroll.Looking at the same time for a place to moore.
When i left the parting words from the pontoon were that my sort arnt welcome ???
I saw a boat alongside.It was an official w welcome !! Where are you from?You cant anchor hear!!Papers.
I told them there was a disorder below
Follow us They left as i started the engine got the anchor up,as soon as the were out of site i had the sail up & off back to France where im very happy to be just now
I shall leave but will have to stop on route i just hope ill get a better welcome in another port!
In this wonderful port thers am optician that give a free eye test it says stand by the wall and read these letters i had 10 10 verygood
France may ve full with moldering boats but its a pleasent place to be economicaly challenged
I hope my next post isent from a Spanish prison
ggood bye for now untill the next open wi fi
