Sunday 29th April in Falmouth. Severe gale 9 and storm 10 keeps us tied up in the marina watching the various drips manefest themselves.

Mark from Seacraft Marine came down from Poole on Thursday and spent eight hours tracing the instrument problem. Fingers crossed he found it. A faulty wire coming from the depth transducer to the back of the instrument panel, feeding into the network and corrupting everything. We now have wind and depth.........fingers crossed this will be robust when we actually go sailing.

We had also lost shore power. Unfortunately, this was traced to the battery charger having gone down, We

Sorry for the repeat, but this did not publish first time around.