Rig Survey in Santa Pola, Alicante. Boy that was a hot couple days! Sun Odyssey 43DS Jeanneau. #boats #boatsales

Getting there with the engine installation. She will be started today. This after cutting the cockpit out, reengineering the bearers, replacing every associated unit including control cables, morse control and new propeller. She'll be ready just in time for nonstop head winds 🤣

Cabo de Gata by day and by dusk. #Almeria #sailing ⛵

Busman's holiday. Only to find this crack propagating through my main line loading point. This is why we always use a safety. Nerve-wracking descent. The jobs continue. I was only up there because the steaming AND anchor light blew out yesterday 🤦🤷🤣 blaady boats.

Puerto Deportivo Juan Montiel yesterday afternoon. Thunderstorms due later today. #Sailing #boats #marina #sunset

Aguilas this afternoon, as forecast.

The KISS principle. Keep It Simple, Stupid! ...... And then you anchor in 15 metres, and you're hauling it in the hot morning sun. #sailing #boats

Strolling around Cartagena on a Sunday morning searching for coffee.

Just enough wind to get Wendy the windvane to do a shift. #sailing #boats

Santa Pola, Alicante. Forecast fine on several 'fronts'. Then it rains, then there's thunder, then visible lightning. There is a feeling that the weather is becoming more unpredictable. Excuse the pants on the guard wires.

Southern anchorage of Isla Tabarca, Alicante, this evening. Can anyone see my boat?

We remain in the busiest anchorage off the Spanish mainland, or so it seems. Some shocking seamanship witnessed, but thankfully it's limited. Awaiting SV Katrilli for a mooch about and an afternoon refreshment.

View from the foredeck this afternoon. Sometimes, if rarely, sailing is almost perfect. #sailing #boats #boating

The flaked sail of a single handed sailor, who's just lost his windvane to the sea, and was left to flake beam to steep waves.

Survey Review: 5⭐ 'I've experienced surveyors before but this was new. Theo thoroughly surveyed the boat from keel to masthead very methodically. Over 2 days, he found faults that I never would. The report is >100 pages. I can't praise his work enough. I highly recommend him.

Photo from the recent sail. Not sure where exactly. It was very nice though.

Today's assignment. The first after the summer break. Pre Purchase and Rig Survey of a Robert Perry CT 54, a heavy displacement bluewater staysail rigged ketch in Benalmadena marina, Málaga, Spain. #boat #sailng #marinesurvey #yacht #benalmadena

Cutterstay rigging attachment point. 😦😮😯😲😳🤯

I love the smell of old tractor engines in the morning....

Nice work Royal Navy 💪💪👏👏 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…