So today we re-reviewed the weather forecast, having got up early because there was a weather window of relatively light winds ahead of a storm front moving towards the island. We had plenty of time to get ourselves round to Mahon and into the shelter of the large natural harbour there and away we went, the marina entrance was lovely and calm, we followed the buoy system out of the cove and towards the sea.
Unfortunately, and this is one of the drawbacks to such secluded inland harbours, when we hit the sea it had other ideas. A 2 metre swell was upon us and matched with high winds this meant that the passage to Mahon was virtually impossible, for the second time on the trip skipper Nigel made the extremely sensible decision to turn back (we covered 3,4 nautical miles this time, and most of those were in the inner harbour). We radioed the marina and the very friendly Mickey was there to greet us, along with a couple of our neighbours who helped to get us secured back onto what is now called “our” berth. We don´t know how long we´ll have to sit it out here, but in the words of a very good friend of ours, “we can think of worse places to be stuck” We headed to the restaurant for coffee and ensaimadas (the local pastry) and started to relax and enjoy the day, after all it was only 10am !!!!!
The Adventures of Gemini J 