Not that I'm superstitious!

Well we can safely say that sailing is an unpredictable activity!
After the forestay was fixed on Monday we had some engine trouble that evening when getting ready to leave Cascais. So Tuesday was spent getting that fixed as we really need an engine, especially since all the weather forecasts we had said that there would be no wind and lovely sunny weather! Michael headed home on Wednesday morning and we, David, Patrick, Phil and myself headed off for our trip to La Coruna in Spain that was not going to be very exciting as we were not going to be able to sail much and would have to use the engine because of no wind!!
Fat chance!! We got to the headland at the corner of Portugal and a really strong wind (gusting up to 30 knots) whipped around the headland at us. So we had a very bumpy ride with strong winds and a huge swell the whole way up.
We had to duck into a sheltered marina in Novara at 6am on Thursday morning to do some repairs to the boom.
Ever since the cork from the bottle of champagne that was used to launch Jessy fell off the wall there´s been nothing but little (and some big) things to fix on her. Not that we´re superstitious or anything but the first thing we made Niall do on his arrival was stick it back on!!!
We arrived very tired and wet in La Coruna at about 8pm on Saturday evening. Niall and Gerry joined us on Sunday afternoon, to our surprise as we were expecting him on Monday!
We´ve spent the last 2 days waiting out the storm and preparing Jessy so we can cross the Bay of Biscay to Brest in France. We leave today after lunch, again with a lovely light wind and sunny weather!!!! fingers crossed!!!
Sorry no pics today, forgot to bring camera with me to the Internet cafe. You´ll have to wait for pictures of me at the top of the mast this morning!!!
Next stop France!!!!
Sue