Ad Lib 47

 

Perhaps Goblin and Jim Brading (see Ad Lib 46) have Gallic alter egos? If so, they slipped silently into St Peter Port on the evening tide.

What is for certain is that Stargazer has finally caught up with Mark and Jude, on Anam Cara. A month after we had first expected to.

We had planned to meet in Dieppe. Until Stargazer was forced to turn back, whilst on passage, to remedy her autopilot fault. (See Ad Lib 17&18). Causing us to miss our carefully selected weather window. Consequently deciding that our quickest recourse was to put in westing along the English shore. As gales and calms permitted.

Anam Cara is making for the Med. Still unsure of how best to tackle over-wintering en route (or upon arrival, if the season settles enough for Mark and Jude to make sufficient progress). 

Topics with which Stargazer's old friends, Daryl and Shirley, aboard Dream Catcher, are fully familiar. Now five years into their sun soaked pelagic odyssey.