We were even happier when we revisited BoHo Gelato the excellent ice cream place:
and on the second and third visits there too.
Alex and Gisele, the Contest yacht folks joined us for dinner on board and as Alex was suffering a little from hip trouble, we ended up launching the RIB to use for a very short water taxi service from the pontoon.
The fragile Beneteau and the very nice folks on board departed after a couple of days but not quite quickly enough to make our lives easy. Our original plan was for Anne and Izzy (our goddog) to come and see us. We would then hitch a ride with her back to Hythe to drop off some clothes etc ready for some time ashore. Yes, ashore! Anne's father was ill so we then had to instigate plan B.
Plan B involved getting the train to Southampton, the bus to Hythe, scrounging lunch from the toddlers and then borrowing their car to drive back to Weymouth. The next day involved taking a RIB full of cases and "stuff" ashore to load up the car before returning to Hythe and then getting the train back. Tiring to type, more so to do.
Naturally the Beneteau headed off the day after doing all this. Then the wind picked up - the Exmouth lifeboat dragged in this little yacht and dumped it on the pontoon directly ahead of us in really foul weather:
since the F7 winds had been forecast for days we did wonder why the yacht was out to sea but... The youngish couple on board vanished pretty quickly once the boat was secured. The RNLI write up is well worth a read - see Lifeboat website link
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