A yacht with a mast looks like that. Obviously it's got the big aluminium
mast but also it's got all the rigging that keeps the mast upright. Well right
now all we've got is a place for the mast. That's where she normally lives.
We did promise you guys that we would be showing you around the marina. It's
Monday morning 8:30 so things are still a little bit quiet and basically I'm now
walking towards the shops restaurants and service areas of the marina.
It's basically an L-shaped structure that faces inwards towards the towards
the berths here. The first thing we see when we get to the end of this walkway
is a kind of dealership for Yanmar engine parts and Mercury outboard motors
and they also have a few boats that I guess are for sale sitting in front of
their shop. And we've got a dive centre - a couple of guys setting up for the day.
There's another ferreteria that sells not just boat parts but also, like fairly
liquid and soap and stuff like that. This is the Marinera's office. These are the
guys that help you tie up to the docks when you pull in for the first time and
they generally just keep an eye on everything around about the place.
There's a little laundromat there it costs 5 euros to wash your clothes on
whichever setting you want and then 1 euro per 10 minutes of dryer time. We've
got a big bag full of stuff that's got to go in there very shortly! So now
walking around the corner takes us to the toilets.
"Hola, buenas!" That's the cleaning lady. She's always in at this time of day so
that's the men's and that's the ladies. There are quite a few restaurants and
bars in the marina area but most of them seem to be closed for the winter. Then
there's a sportswear shop for kite surfing and skateboarding and all that
sort of stuff. Next we've got the Argentinean restaurant that's where we
ate one night. That was very good and again we were the only customers in the
place it was that quiet. Then we have Jose's office. Of course Jose is the
broker that we're buying our yacht from. And right next to that is another
restaurant which is more sort of an ice creamery/coffee shop than a restaurant
really. This walks out to the car parking area and just beyond that wall there
is a big beach the arcs up across over to those buildings in the distance. So
this one here is the Spanish bar that does the 10 euro daily menu - Really good.
Very basic down-to-earth food but really good value and really tasty. And then
there's the Clipper Pub - claims to be an Irish pub but to be honest with you it's
more like a Spanish bar than anything else! An other restaurants - do have a
daily menu as well but we've never been in there. Have seen a lot of Spanish
people eating there so it must be quite good. And then there's a clothes shop. I'm
sure that everything in there is twice the price that it should be! Gourmet steaks
and cakes in Cielos, that's clowds bar/ bistro. The infamous ferreteria, where
light globes are a stupid price. It's just a little kinda like souvenir shop I
guess. We had a look in there. There's some fishing gear in there but I think
I'll go into Murcia and go to a fishing tackle place to buy buy that sort of
stu. So now we'll wander back to the boat
and I'll give you a quick glimpse of topside. She's got a lot of work that
still needs to doing to her, so we're not going to do the boat tour until the
mast is on, the stainless steel arch for the davit's is on, and also probably the
solar and the dingy and the outboard. Once all that is completed all that work
is completed, we will do a full boat tour. But for now take a look at this where
the mast should live. A yacht with a mast looks like that. Obviously its got the
big aluminium mast. But also it's got all the riggin that keeps the mast upright.
Well right now all we've got is a place for the mast! That's where she normally
lives. This aluminium section here - this is the boom. So the mast and all of the
rigging has gone, so she doesn't even looklike a proper yacht at the moment. Let me
just go forward to the anchor and I'll show you what she looks like looking
backwards. Yeah pretty barren, pretty bare.
So walking back to the cockpit along the side decks here...
that's our sunscreened dodger, and our Bimini. This is mostly mostly
where we sit when the weather's fine - a big table so it's even if we wanted to
work out here there's a lot of space to do that as well.
So not really a proper boat tour, just a quick look on deck to see how the land
lies so to speak. If you can say that when you're on a boa. But we will be
giving you a full boat tour inside and out
once all the construction and building work is over.
Well that parking took half an hour? Yeah half an hour. But ... We've got the best
parking angel in the world who was just waiting for the one that's just around
the corner from the shop. No, the shop's right there. There.
Oh my god, we have got the best parking angel in the world!
The man in the shop very kindly gave us one full tank didn't he? Yeah, he's filled all the tanks.
Oh all of them! Oh isn't that cool. Okay so we're off to...Where are we going now?
We're going back to the boat now because it is already quarter past seve. We've
got a 40-minute drive ahead of us then we've got to get this heavy stuff
including 30 kilos of lead. Onto the boat. From the car to the boat. Luckily
we've got two trolleys now which will help!
I reckon you'll get two tanks on there. Our complete halt from our shopping
trip to the dive shop included for S80 11.1 litre aluminium tanks,
4 plastic tank boots, 4 tank valve caps, 2 x 5ml wetsuits and enough
lead for three divers broken down by 6 x 3 kilos, 6 x 2 kilos and 6 x 1 kilo
weights. Quite a haul but something we need. Next we've got to get a petrol
driven compressor so we can actually refill our own tanks on bore.
Okay, today's little exercise has been to stock up with lots of tins and things
and dry goods and you know, toiletries and things like this that we can store
in behind the saloon cushions her. See! So that's nice and clean and behind
every single one of these there's ample storage so we thought we may as well
start doing this now. Most ... I've put ... I've dated them and I've put the names on them
because anything that was in cardboard, because cardboard carries cockroach eggs
you need to get rid of cardboar. If you're going to store tins in the bilges
where you've got the potential of the water dissolving ... softening the paper and
having the paper go into the bilges you also have to take the labels off. But I
didn't have to do that today because it's all going in behind thee! Well I've
been really surprised because all of that stuff that was on that shelf I've
put into here. All the sort of soft things behind the seat here.
And all the tins and the other things in here and look how much more space there is!
There's heaps! So when you think how many other seats we've got, we've got lots of
storage! So it's really goo. So we'll be able to put lots of water on board and
plenty of drinks and other things like toilet rolls and I mean we've
already got 12 toilet rolls we bought the other day. But we're certainly well
off for storage and you know I've still got more art things to buy. I've got one
cupboard that's in the big cabin forward. But I'm thinking now I'll probably be
able to commandeer one of these as well because I think we're well off
for space, so that's really good.
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the comments... Now where is the Dremel drill stored? Why? Because we're going to
have to modify the light fittings down below to accept the new LED lights that
we're going to install. Ah. It's in the forward cabin in the forward port locker.
Perfect. I'll go and get it!