Sunday 26th October to Sunday 16th November 2008 Rachel and Chris caught the 08.15 train to Faro and their flight home. It was excellent having them here and rediscovering old haunts. After they left we sorted out the boat - much needed, and had Andy and Pam (Port Edgar) and Bob and Loretta (Largs) round for drinkie-poos and then all out for dinner. On Tuesday Gordon discovered the wrong watermaker had been delivered! I'll let him explain later.We also discover...

Wednesday 3rd September 2008 One interesting couple we met in Kinsale was American Steve and Linda Dashew on "Wind Horse" an 80 foot motor boat. Steve has designed and built about 50 or so luxury large sailing cruisers and "Wind Horse" is his design for a 'round the world' motor boat that two people can handle (see pics). It has unpainted aluminium hull with stabilisers and a very luxurious interior, range of 4,000 miles with a 15,000 litre...