Waiting for the weather

Half done Tiller Pilot fitting

The wind on Tuesday night made walking along the pontoon unpleasantly cold, and we were glad of the electric heater in the cabin. Once it had been on for ten minutes Robinetta felt toasty warm, and we were able to leave it off overnight.

The lines creaked as we were blown off all night, and we could feel the frequent gusts. At one point I realised that we had not tied Worm on to the pontoon she was resting on... Julian told me in the morning he had worried about it too, but neither of us wanted to go out into the cold to check on her.

Wednesday morning the wind was so strong and gusty we decided against sailing. Instead we worked on the Tiller pilot fixing which broke last year. Mid afternoon, when the new set up was ready to install Julian looked out and saw it was raining, so we holed up in the cabin until it stopped.

After the tiller pilot mount was in place we realised that the wind had dropped, and the clouds had gone. We actually had sunshine, and going for a little sail round the harbour to check out the sails and rigging after the winter ashore felt like something we wanted to do.

We were only out for an hour, but had a lovely little sail. Everything worked as expected, and we got Robinetta back to her berth in a relaxed state of mind.