The Mar Menor

Our new diving tanks

SUNDAY 21 JULY 2008

After a very leisurely breakfast, Elaine gave us a lift back to Santiago de la Ribera and where we had lunch at a café on the beach and then canoed back to the boat.

When Roger did his engine check, the water filler cap came apart in his hands. He managed to put it back together, but we will have to try and get one as soon as possible.


We sailed back to Puerto de Tomas Maestre where we anchored and cleaned the decks with seawater, and Roger cleaned the hull from the canoe. Mervyn and Janice from LaManga Dive School delivered our new diving gear, including two tanks, in their rib. As the tanks need to be securely stored upright, we decided the best place for them was the bottom of my wardrobe, secured with cord and a webbing strap. During this process Roger had to re-position some wires in the wardrobe and when cutting one of the cable ties managed to cut through the wire to our brand new 2000 euro autopilot! When he looked at the wires they seemed more complicated than normal. I wanted to get an autopilot engineer to sort it as I was convinced Roger would blow the whole unit but after a long time he eventually managed to reconnect the wires and it worked! By the time we had replaced all our clothes in the lockers it was gone midnight.