Another crossing of Biscay, luckily by plane Lynne has no real desire to cross Biscay again by boat!
we had grabbed the chance to catch up with people back home and in particular met up with Peter Manning and Ed and Val down at the Marina at Preston, my sister had kindly lent me her car so we were fairly mobile. Ed Val and their daughter Sarah are Caribbean veterans having spent 17 years or so living out there aboard various yachts the last of which Avatar now sits in the Marina while Ed undergoes treatment for Parkinsons, we wish him well. It was nice to just eat drink and talk boats.
Also Lynne had the rare treat of watching the largest mobile crane (on tyres) in the world as it unloaded a huge transformer for a local power station.
The photo shows the two massive cranes that are necessary to dismantle it into 70 ton parts to be transported by road, it is also accompanied by a fleet of 12 heavy road transports. Very impressive.
However I guessed that Lynne much preferred sitting in the sun in DTs cockpit to watching heavy plant in Preston.
The temperature was very acceptable when the sun was out.
of course for the sake of journalistic integrity it needs to be said that some days it rains too!
I had mentioned to my Dad that Portugalete (on the other side of the Ria) was so steep it had escalators installed in the footpaths, so just for you Dad here they are 30 seconds or so of video.
So now we are awaiting the return of Oscar the INOX man who is making our bimini (sun protection for cockpit) we have to replace the spare genoa halliard and we will probably be pulled out for a scrub off and antifoul soon but we are in no rush. We are back in Spain and Manana will do for now.
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