Another anchorage, this time a few hundred metres to the north of Palairos harbour. Once the wind died down we ventured ashore in the tender tying it securely to a lamp post in the inner corner of the harbour. After a refreshing beer at a very locals bar we ate a delicious dinner of roasted peppers, houmous, roasted lemon potatoes and lamb so succulent it just melted in your mouth, and washed down with a litre of the New Mill restaurant house rose. All good until we returned to our tender to see it untied and drifting inaccessibly behind a motor boat. With the owner on board we thought no problem we’ll just ask if we could go on board to reach it. He wasn’t having it however and in no uncertain words he wasn’t letting anyone on his boat. If fact he was a bit odd in other ways, in that last week we’d seen him sitting in the drivers seat for hours, going nowhere! However being charter boat changeover day, the pontoon was full of charter boats and 2 very helpful people. One of them pulled a spare lazy line that was under our dinghy and teased it nearer and Paul climbed in a fishing boat and managed to reach the tender from there, which thankfully hadn’t drifted too far. We then discovered that the 2 very helpful people actually came from Weymouth, belonged to the Royal Dorset YC and Weymouth SC and knew several members from CCSC! After one of them expressed his ‘thoughts’ to the chap in the motor boat we returned to Jacana pondering who and why someone had untied our tender letting it drift.
