During the night we had winds between 20 – 30 KN. It was a bit noisy with all the singing of the wind in masts of the boats. MaRe was vibrating, which is normal. Once, while being on the hard on Croatia with MaRe, I had 30 – 40 KN of winds from a bura which was blowing.

Yesterday morning, when the wind was already weaker, and I went to the toilet, a marina staff came to me to tell I have to leave the hard stand area now. “Where should I go?. I’m living on my boat” was my answer. “You have to go to the marina building and wait there until the wind is down at 1200 – 1300” was the reply I got. I didn’t believe what I was told because the wind was already below 20 KN. I went back to MaRe to prepare my things and had a quick muesli because I was hungry. I took my mobile phone, my PC and the 2 big and the small power banks and finally left MaRe and was brought to the marina building where there were already a few other sailors living normally in their boats on the hard stand.

Seems to me that the order to leave the hard stand area at winds already below 20 KN is as strange as having the power cables to be certified for fitness before one can plug into the shore power.

I’m curious what will be the next in this row.

The good thing yesterday was that I got a parcel with the chargers for certain power tools I have on board.

The bad thing was that I could not replace the solar charger controllers for the panels I have on the cockpit roof.

However at least I could do a lot of work on my PC. This PC work I continued beyond 1300 to complete it. Back to MaRe I could finally form and bake my bread. Pottering around with free things, fixing my dinner of pan-fried potatoes and tzatziki because I had half a cucumber left.

Another day has passed with no boat work possible. Sh…. happens and it can be in form of rain and wind.