Saturday 28th July '12

The Kipper and the crew-of-two arrived in Torrevieja safe and sound and by 20:35 hrs they were out and about enjoying the sights and sounds:

'Out in Torrevieja on a Saturday night, tapas for dinner, very Spanish.  Pity about the clientele: Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham accents everywhere! Checked the bilge today as every day was full of water, 8 gallons!  We have a leak!  Stern gland and keel bolts checked - one appeared to be weepig, further inestigation...no it isn't.  Then discovered the toilet inlet pipe what was replaced by lurverly Pete the tank man was leaking.  A job to do tomorrow before we can put to sea.  Thought I may have to lift out and have a new seacock fitted...phew!'

Phew indeed; that would have been extremely costly. 

Pete the Tank Man

May I take this opportunity to apologise to our friends from the North of our fair land - you all have lovely accents, clearly The Kipper doesn't appreciate your melodious tones.

Sunday 29th July 12 - The Kipper udpated as follows:

'Up early, before the heat of the day, 06:30 hrs and repaired the split pipe, all done by 08:00.  Cleaning up, hope to be away by 10:00 hrs for Ibiza.  Yippee, moving on again.'

After a little prompting from The Scribe, he provided the following information:

'It's about 120 miles direct but we have an easterly so will be going North then as the wind veers will then go east.  Probably end up doing 140.  24 hours or so to get there.'