Fixing Insulation on refrigerator compressor

We are in warm climes in spite of the current 'wet spell' here in Gib. Locals assure me that winter here is sunny so fingers crossed. Greg thought the weather had turned for the worse because he woke up complaining that his feet were really cold. The temperature inside the boat ( without any heating ) is 23 degrees. Just a little investigation and the mystery was solved:

The compressor coils leading to the fridge were iced to about 2inches in diametre - little wonder Greg's feet were cold because the coils are beneath his bunk!

An hour later and there are the coils!  Greg had found some offcuts of insulating foam at the boatyard and brought them back...

Voila! Coils nicely insulated and Greg's pinkies are pink again - RESULT :O)

Cannot let today pass - it's three months since we left Fowey!

It's three months exactly since we left Fowey. We arrived in Falmouth harbour at 10.30pm on the 3rd August 2012 to a grand firework display :O)

We have travelled 1,347 nautical miles from Fowey to Gibraltar. The equivalent of 1,550 land miles or 2,495 kilometres by sea. That's cause for a small celebration I think as we have travelled without incident and our boat has performed beautifully all the way. We will spend some time over the next week or so servicing the Volvo Penta engine that has been just as reliable as Lerryn Lady and the rest of the season making ready to set sail again in the Spring. We hope to install solar panels so that we can get off the grid and anchor without worrying about power supply - no shortage of solar 'rays' in the Med methinks.
            We will make the most our our time in Gibraltar in the meantime. We are expecting our eldest daughter to join us for Christmas and have another friend coming to visit in January.  We would very much love to see all of you here if you feel you can come over. Here's two links for possibly the cheapest and nicest B&B in Gibraltar and it's only 20 metres from our berth:
 http://www.tripadvisor.es/Hotel_Review-g187510-d1591107-Reviews-Con_Dios-Gibraltar.html

http://www.gibraltarbedandbreakfast.com/condiosco/contact-us/

I went to check it out last week, it's lovely accommodation - and they promise never to untie the lines from the moorings!

This Blog will be kept up to date over the coming months and I hope you will find our predominantly land based antics interesting as well ;O)

Greg has chilled an Oyster Bay Savignon Blanc so here's to us, here's to Lerryn Lady and here's to you for following us!  According to Blogspot Stats we've had 2,743 hits on Sailaway since leaving Falmouth - THANK YOU!


               
 

This quote found me today :O)

“I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths, just a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anaïs Nin

    

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Pictures taken from another boat - of us heading round Cape Trafalgar

Woohoo - this shows you the height of the Atlantic swell that day -we're almost out of view!

Rolling along...

Clouds cometh, we're the blip under them...

We're that tiny blip just to right of centre horizon - enormous sea and sky...

This was earlier when we had one reef in the main ready and waiting...

We're a little blip again, right of centre horizon, I remember that cloud, like something out of the Independence Day movie...

The sea really built up while we were under that cloud, seemed an age before we had it all behind us and were out in the sun spangles once again.

This is one of many lovely surprises at sea, other sailors photograph you. Much later in time ( when they spot you in a Port somewhere) they come along with their Memory sticks or scanned disc or external memory chips and leave them with you to download; returning later in time to recover their property. It's a great way to make friends too. We've had The League of Nations (oops, defunct, read United Nations)   onboard our boat in the last three months. The photographers above are German, Jok and Ushi. The main photograph at top of Blog was supplied courtesy of Jacques from Normandy.

What do you do on a wet Saturday afternoon on a boat in Gibraltar?

For Becks! You marinate Salmon in Mirin and sesame ready for the evening meal ...

If you're Greg you watch Man U beating Arsenal 2- 1 then...

Norwich beating Stoke 1 - 0 then...

 

I sit in my cosy little corner...

 

(For Mark Phillips) Doing the Times Crossword - what on Earth is 44 Across?

And then Greg watches ANOTHER match - West Ham v Man City and he's going to watch Match of the Day tonight as well :O) The sun is due back tomorrow!

 

 

 

Halloween/Samhain evening on our boat

This is tissue paper over our anchor light suspended in the cockpit...

The little lanterns I made earlier - it was breezy on the pontoon so I had to use rubber bands to stop the lanterns blowing off the jars - a freaky bondage thing going on now I look at them...

And expected weather in UK for Halloween. Hope it didn't deter your little trick and treaters, we had ten turn up :O)