Getting a taste

We were very lucky to be invited by our friend Zeljko, from the Croatian Yachting team around to his family home again where his wife and himself cooked us an amazing meal of Traditional BBQ (no gas-we had to cut the wood and have a few home brewed wines watching it burn down)pork, beef and fish along with Octopus which Shelly wasn't that keen on. He then took us up to the look out point at the highest point of the Hills looking over Split which was amazing. We are blown away by him and his Families Hospitality.

After many a day waiting for some form of work to be completed there came a time when we had to leave the marina. OK, we had paid for the Month and the month was up and so we had to get out of Dodge so to speak. :)
The Watermaker and Solar Panels are all up and running and doing everything I had hoped for with 50 litres of Fresh Water being made an hour from the water maker, and the Solar Panels when we tested them on a cloudy day, returning 16 amps.

                             The Echotec Watermaker, neatly installed under the front Berth.

We have had some 'teething' issues with some of the gear on board along the way as can be expected and now the Computer for the Electronic Nav Gear needs replacing amongst a couple of other things and won't be here for a few days. So the decision was made to get out and spend some time around the beautiful Islands of the Croatian Coast and go back to Karstela when they arrive.

I put the Gennaker in the sock this morning and test flew that in the Marina and can't wait to give that a good airing. The weather was great and we had a good sail out to Milna and anchored close in and had a quick bite to eat. Another check on the weather and we decided to move to another bay a bit more sheltered from the South Easterly that was predicted to come up through the night.

We picked a little bay where we could get close in and had plenty of depth and had Dinner on the back of the boat and watched the sun go down.

Looking forward to getting out to Hvar tomorrow and getting that Gennaker up!