As we aren’t going far we sleep in a bit. The colds have stopped us having a really good sleep. So we set off at about 10:30 to go to
Imperia, a place I never heard of but it is next door to Diano Marina (where we
went on a camping holiday about 30 years ago). The sun is shining brightly and although the air is a bit
cool, the weather seems lovely.
The sea has calmed down a lot and the wind is blowing on the beam at
about 8 knots when we start out.
The sail isn’t bad, but the little swell there is (about 1metre) is
making me feel bad. So, silly as
it seems, I have to take a seasick pill.
I hope the whole of the Med won’t be like this.
We sail for about one and a half hours until the wind dies to pretty
much nothing. We continue to sail
for a bit, but when it was getting up to lunch time and we only had 2-4 knots
of wind we gave up and motored the last bit. Before we got to the harbour Richard rang them up and
confirmed that we had a space. The
harbour is huge and we really didn’t know where we were going. I called up the Harbour Office who told
us to sail straight on until we saw their men who would direct us into a
space. As we approached the end of
the harbour a rib came up with two fellows in it who did indeed direct us to a
space and help us tie up. They
then told us that the Harbour office was on the complete other side of the
harbour, which is very big. They
asked us to give them the ships documents and they would come back with the
bill, an adaptor for the electricity (yes, it has yet another connection!) and
a key to the toilet block. Now we
have read about rogue helpers in harbours who are not officially connected with
the harbour charging unwitting sailors for help with mooring. But these men did not take any money
from us, but we are still a bit wary.
However all is well. They
are members of the harbour staff and they did exactly what they said.
Our only problem now is getting off the boat! We are moored stern to, but the dock we are moored to is at
least 2 feet above the level of the boat.
This means we have to use our board and it is at a very steep incline to
walk up and down to get on and off.
Even Richard is a bit wary of it.
But we manage to use it. We
just won’t do it very often and not after dark!
We have an afternoon walking up the steep hill via numerous staircases
to get to the top of the old town.
We follow a little walking tour for a bit and then find a small
supermarket to buy a few essentials.
Back to the boat where the sun is still shining and it is nice and
warm. So for the first time this
trip we have dinner in the cockpit -
pasta, what else! We will
have a longer trip tomorrow, so will have to get up early.
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