Explored the castle and old town on the cliffs and the ‘Rudder of Corsica’, a series of old with World War two tunnels at the entrance of the harbor. Interesting cemetery.

A power boat ‘Amaretto’ berthed beside us scraped TUI. We got the owners contact details to try and submit an insurance claim but they never returned our calls. Arggh!

The next day, we did laundry and got extra oil and coolant. We were recommended ‘Luc’, the electrician, who didn’t fix the mast head light, but made it totally inoperable – All he had to do was to reverse two switches so that teh anchor light would turn on when the anchor switch was pressed, and the masthead tri-color would turn on when that switch was pressed. They both worked, but on the wrong switches. When he had ‘finished’ we were without power to both switches, the main fuse on the boats ‘motherboard’ was blown, and the steaming light and bow flood light switches had been swapped with each other – bastard!

We were outside the B52 nightclub that was very noisy until 1:00 PM, and didn’t get much sleep that night. We fully provisioned the following day and topped up ships water and diesel. The fuel dock was very busy and it took us 90 minutes of waiting in line, trying to maintain position under motor and bow thruster to get to the fuel dock behind other boats.

Luc was supposed to come back and restore lights to what they were before, but he didn’t show up.

We were lucky to stay three days as we had a reservation only for one day. Reason was that the marina was empty due to really strong winds and waves way out of normal and 7 people died. August 18th, at the height of the storm, winds recorded at 220 kilometers an hour. That is 150 miles an hour, or 120 knots. Crazy!

Have a look at the next blog as far as storm damage.

We are waiting for a good weather window to head off to Minorca. That will be a long passage.