Yes OK he is hamming it again but only a little. It really was quite chilly!
We got the anchor up around 1200 on Monday 21/6 and proceeded out of the harour under power. Once at the outer anchorage where we spent our first night we got the mainsail up and then the genoa. We had light westerly winds to start with and commenced beating the 7 miles to Legos. Progress was slow but it was fairly pleasant sailing after the first hour or so.
As we got within a couple of miles of Legos at around 1400 our tummies started rumbling and so Mick whipped up a great omelette for lunch. Around the same time the wind did exactly what the forecast said it would do and went into the North and Legos was once again directly up wind of us! Had we been half-way competent sailors we would have taken that into account and stayed close to the coast so as to be able to take advantage of the wind shift when it came but we didn't. As a consequence it was almost 1630 before we entered Legos Harbour. Mooring on the holding pontoon and checking in took almost an hour and so it was 1800 until we completed mooring up in our designated marina berth (thankfully without any embarrassment).
Mick dashed to the supermarket for ice for our G&Ts and got back just in time for our Zoom meeting with our warm water Sailors' pals. That was immediately followed by another Zoom with my family. It was great to see them again and the two youngest grandaughters (approx 17 months) seemed to enjoy it immensely.
Then we dashed out for food and found the only establisment in the Marina willing to serve food at 2130!
We'd only covered 7 miles as the crow flies but it seemed worthy of celebration nevertheless!
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