Lauren here.
We
arrived in Falmouth through thick fog and discovered a busy weekend and a sea
shanty festival on the other side. Groups of enthusiastic men and woman-
carrying glasses of beer- walked around Falmouth town centre and sang about
drunken sailors and hoisting the main sail. The town was buzzing and it turned
out to be a great welcome.
After
the days in town, there was still work to do on the boat to prepare any last
niggles before crossing Biscay. Nathan has spent much of his time this week
making a spray hood and sun shade for the back deck. It requires a lot of
stitching and patience. It's looking good and will help keep us warm in the
wind and cool in the sun.
We
also got a new line for the Aries self steering, replaced the anchor light,
adjusted the rigging, plumbed up the BBQ (hoping for good weather to use the
thing) and invested in extra diesel tanks to keep on deck. Other boats we met
heading west have been taking extra diesel for crossing Biscay as the winds
have been so light.
Oh yes, and we fixed the leak in the ally dinghy so we're now back to using that.
It
also has been a case of watching our power consumption this week. The solar
panels and wind gen haven't been putting in much power lately, and that's been
down to countless cloudy and windless days. Only in the evenings have we got a
decent bit of sun, but it's at the wrong angle for the solar panel and not long
enough to do much good. For a few days phones and laptops have been without
battery, which has been somewhat liberating!
I
tested out a bread recipe yesterday, it went to plan and will do the job for
when we run out of fresh. A video will be coming soon.
We
took last weekend off, dingied into shore and walked to Pendennis Castle. The
walk gave us lovely views of the harbour and did us good stretching our legs up
the hill. Pendennis was quite a small castle compared to others we've seen, but
packed full of interesting stuff.
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