Chapter two I left off where I had left UK with two bags of toys I was going to use to get Mrs Opela back to some sort of restored dignity after leaving her for almost three years In my bags I had A new chartplotter with AIS built in A new Raymarine autopilot control unit Second (useless) wind turbine with a mppt controller A new vhf radio and aerial A new Battery charger that ran off the honda generator A new 3000W inverter A new Starlink mini system and hundreds of other smaller spares that I needed because the yard had allowed the boat to go to ruin I found the yard had turned off the automatic bilge pump and let the boat fill with water so all the veneer on the inside had gone rotten and peeled or been stained Taken my dinghy off the boat and let it get destroyed by their staff but it was too late now to push that so I buckled down and started working on it I ordered a new Dinghy but the French sent a bigger one than I ordered so now I have to make comprom...

  Hi to all my friends and family out there It has been a very long time since I last posted but the new era has started and that means changes are happening and its time to start sharing my adventures again You all know I sold galileo and decided to come and see if it was worth salvaging Opela in the Marquises islands where she had been standing on the hard for almost three years. Well in September the French allowed me a one year visa to come back and look at her to make the decision whether I should walk away and abandon her or get her back into sailing condition My journey began in Grenada just after I had sold Galileo I was told I could get my hernia operation done and so I moved off the boat and handed it to the new owner and booked into Cool Runnings so I could recover from the operation The op went well and when I woke my good friend Jock was waiting outside the hospital to help me home and support me which I wasn't expecting but was a really pleasant surprise. ...