3rd May. We are now afloat. Aros More was launched on 1st May. We left Sanderling House B&B and our wonderful hostess and host, Jill and John Walter. Jill and I got on like a house on fire, just like sisters. We were born within a month of each other in1949. All the time there, the two of us compared notes. We have so much in common, really amazing, and when we met today we wore the same colour clothes in upper sites. I wore pale green shorts and a white t-shirt, and Jill wore a pale green t-shirt and white trousers.
We are having a great time here, enjoying ourselves. David is just a big boy playing with his favourite toys in the way of sorting out the boat and making sure all the equipment works. This morning the watermaker got checked out and is now working again. I am enjoying and sucking in everything, meeting people, looking in shops, Saturday morning activities about the village such as car boot sales and Yesterday Deltaville Marina had a boat sale. Boat owners were selling items them did not need anymore. Unfortunately we did not manage to get there in time for trying to sell all our charts from Antigua to Virginia. I was over there and met a lot of other yachties. Some of them were selling drift- anchors, safety equipment, warps and fenders, others sold cups and cookers, windmills and dinghies.
5th May. Adolf, the Hun, our wind steering gear was checked yesterday, David ordered a new Liferaft, as the old one has now retired at the age of 23 years! Our new inflatable dinghy has arrived and I stencilled the name on it. We are getting nearer than ever to our leaving date. Skip our very good craft man in the yard came down one evening and gave us a couple of tunes on his trompet.