Rose at 8:00. Egg, marmite, bread and butter for breakfast. Waved farewell to Michael and crew on Crystal.

Warm, calm day, swam, cleaned hull and rust stains from gudgeons. Assessed practicality of installing retaining blocks on Beam 4 to prevent the sideslip when lashings work loose. Seems doable. Found 3 more cracks in fillet joints, two on the port and starboard gunwhale rubbing strips and one new area – the inside starboard bow chine. Inspected rudders, trim-tabs, lashings. All fine.

Next big challenge: Learning to chill. Still clinging to the old schedule, rush rush way of life and getting ready to move on.

However, found cracks in hull, my heart sank. Not only because it will mean a delay, but more because of that sickening feeling that comes when your confidence in the structure of your ship has been tarnished. But then learned from our Canadian neighbours Betty &  Luis on Ave del Mar (Spanish – Bird of the Sea), that the whale sharks are coming. Maybe we should wait for them to arrive. Yin and Yang.

Burned Tuya’s shirt today. Crazy Korean messaging with no understanding. Girls had a hair day after the boat cleaning. Did not go to shore today.