We left LePhareBleu Marina yesterday morning with the wind kicking up to 20 knots. We got out of the slip OK and made our way East to St David's arriving at about 1000. We continued getting the boat ready for our "SCHEDULED" 1300 haul out. We dropped the stay sail and folded it, lifted the dinghy up and stored it upside down on the foredeck and gave the boat a good freshwater wash down.
Our 1300 haulout was doomed from the start - we heard the Marina hailing a large Amel (French hailing port) at about 1030 - no answer. The hail was repeated several times and the Amel finally answered and said something about water before one of the guys on the boat jumped in the water and swam around front. We are pretty sure that the mooring ball was tangled on the guys bowline. The Amel then moved into the lift well and we thought that we might just make our scheduled haulout. WRONG - It was now lunch time..... At 1310 we heard the travel lift start and thought we might make a 1330 haul but the guy was not ready and had to get someone from the sail loft to drop both of his head sails.
We were finally hauled, the boat power washed and blocked by about 1545 - the yard shuts down at 1600 so we manged to squeak in again (LONG STORY).
We spent the night in a small privately owned guest house, had a nice shower with cool water (another story here), and then dinner. Sometime during the night we had a very heavy rain storm so we are hoping that the rain also fell in St David's so the boat would have an extra fresh water rinse!
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