23 May Saundersfoot

After a well earned 10 hours sleep for John, who crashed out the minute his head hit the pillow, we awoke to a beautiful sunny day moored up to a floating pontoon in the pretty harbour of Saundersfoot.

After 38 hours of non stop sailing, the interior of the boat looked like a bomb had hit it, with kit, provisions, clothing, computers, crockery etc everywhere. Most things had been stuffed underneath the saloon table to protect them from sliding around and from me tripping over them! We decided to tidy things up and put them away in places we'll probably forget where we've stashed them, when we need to use them! If you get my drift....senior moments loom ever large these days!
The Saundersfoot Harbour Master came by to say hello and to take a couple of photos of our boat in his harbour. They have big plans to promote this lovely harbour so a flashy, new catamaran using their modern purpose built pontoon will look great on any of their media information.

At 10.30 John fired up the tender and headed off to pick up his parents, June & Ian. This harbour dries out to a great sandy beach when the tide goes out, so he was able to collect them from the harbour itself rather than a beach landing, which we did later. It was another reason why we didn't want to go into the harbour itself as there were plenty of boats resting on their hulls and keels.  
Of course, we had to get the drone out and take some action shots of us all on the boat.

We had a lovely afternoon catching up with June & Ian, who kindly thought of providing some much needed alcohol, in the form of a couple of bottles of wine. They had the full tour and we sat outside and enjoyed the warmth of the midday sun before the wind picked up and we sat in the saloon thereafter.  We headed back to shore to attack a beach landing which involved me getting my feet and socks wet as we couldn't quite get the tender up the beach far enough, but it provided a few laughs. A quick shop for me to pick up some hardware stuff and more essential nibbles. The town is very pretty and well worth a look if you're ever this way.

Fish and chips for June & Ian and then they headed off to visit a friend, but they helped out our latest crew member by picking him up from the local train station.
Jon Herod, second mate, fourth class, has joined us until friday and we're looking forward to using his sailing skills to our best advantage! Hope he brought his sextant....

Another ship mate given the obligatory tour, a glass of french red wine and at 7.30pm, we're off back to town to find something to eat and drink.
See you later.