Piracy

Bit of a rude awakening on Saturday morning... awoke at 5am to find that the anchor had dragged in the night with the rising wind and Eclipse was perilously close to crunching against the dock. Made an emergency exit from the slip with the help of a neighbouring yacht crew, and some fancy driving by Greg and set off for a safer anchor.

Fuelled up at 0830 from a truck on the town quay, then after another fraught manoeuvre in the winds gusting 40 knots on the nose, (again, all credit to Greg for getting us off without gel coat damage) we motored out to a mooring on the other side of the bay away from the lee shore. Spent the morning sun bathing and working on the boat, then in the afternoon, after deciding that the wind didn't look like abating, pulled the heavy anchor, chain and dinghy out of deep storage. Got the heavy anchor deployed, which held us fast, then pumped up the dinghy and Anna and I motored off to find a bar!

A mile or so along the shore we moored up to a jetty, locked the engine and found a small bar, where we chatted to the locals over drinks for a couple of hours. Everyone was friendly, happy to chat about island life, however when we returned to the dinghy at about 2230 we discovered we had been prey to some of the less savoury elements of the population, as someone had nicked the fuel tank (full of petrol), leaving me to have to row the mile back to the yacht against the wind in the dark! We were not amused.