It was very nice to get together with people we had got to know very well. Howard and Hilary were back from Turkey having left their boat in Sardinia. Hilary had also become blonde in the last twelve months!
I finally got to know the owner of the only boat in the marina I am envious of, namely Avatar a beautiful aluminium boat. The family unfortunately had been forced to return from I believe 17 years or so in the Caribbean. Eddy had developed Parkinson's and was responding to treatment but realistically his cruising days were coming to an end and he had swallowed the anchor in our absence and bought a house. Sarah their daughter who was born on board had been home schooled and was having to get used to going to school and living in a house for the first time in her life! She was also finding the weather hard to adjust to after spending her whole life in the tropics.
We had a boozy session later in the Wellington with Barry and Anne who also had moved into a flat overlooking the dock, they have crossed the Atlantic once before in the 24 ft Serenity, Barry is looking for anoyther boat to do it again!
A big cat Hocus Pocus is also heading south in May.
It's great to see so many boats eager to get going.
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