June 17, 2011

Again we found out that the weather will be too bad to sail: Strong stormy wind from the South still, exactly the direction we have to go.
This made it impossible for us to sail so we decided to stay for another day at St. Peter Port, Guernsey.
We spend the day maintaining our outboard motor and therefore attached it to the pier. (finally when the motor was 100% we started it and almost pushed the pier through the whole Marina ;)
Andrej and Dima set out for further discovery of the island.

Later that afternoon we decided to turn the boat in the outbound direction.
Due to the fact that many ships were now rafting up in the channel where we had found a berth and passing these ships through the very narrow passage that was left in the reverse would be very hard for us.
The Boekanier doesn't sails easy in the reverse.
Therefore we had to turn the ship around in a narrow canal.
Anyway we waited till high tide where there would be some more room to manoeuvre and then we did the turn in no time after careful preparation.
As soon we were all back on board, Sam announced that we all deserved our steigerborrel after this safe landing! We more and more get addicted to our 'Steigerborrel'!

The information about the weather for the next day wasn't very promising.
Again the wind would be 7 to 8 Bf, which meant storm with waves of 9 to 13 feet.
So, we decided that Andrej and Dima should start inquiring after ferry tickets to St. Malo as they have to catch their plane on Sunday.
A complicating issue was the fact that we were in the U.K. And that Andrej nor Dima possessed a valid visa for the U.K.

Tomorrow Sam and I will have to sail the Boekanier together to St. Malo on Sunday. Our new crew will have to wait for us one day, for which we are very sorry, but it is beyond our control.