Victoria is desperate to see the boat. She hasn’t had a holiday that wasn’t on Jeannius since she was about 14 (apart from a couple of short trips to Spain which don’t count) and not having been on Jeannius for nearly two years, she is getting withdrawal symptoms.
The three of us trundle down to the marina in the little green monster. Victoria wanders all over the boat, checking out everything that is new or changed in some way, wanting to know how the new rigging works etc. She is a much more natural sailor than I am, and the only time she gives Mike blind obedience is when she is sailing, a lesson we both learned very early on!!! She pronounces Jeannius to be somewhat dirty but in very good nick given what she has been put through over the last year. Sitting at the helm, she pronounces that having been on Jeannius, she now really feels like she is on holiday and promptly sticks her nose back into a new book. That’s my girl!
We go to an oyster bar for lunch, Mike and I eating deep fried oysters and ‘angels on horseback’ – oysters wrapped in bacon and fried. Victoria eyes them suspiciously and sticks to mussels.
Photo: Victoria, Mike and me with our seafood
Mike goes into town to sort out his dongle, the gadget that allows us to use wifi from our computers while Victoria and I wander around the shops at the waterfront.
Photo: Knysna Waterfront
Before we go back to Ann and Terry’s, I discover that the freezer has mysteriously stopped working again and everything that we had left in it has now completely defrosted although the fridge is still working fine. We had left Jeannius connected to the shore power so there should have been no problem. Swearing loudly, I chuck some things away and pack some beef, fish, crab sticks and dhal into a cool box and cart it all back to the car. That night we have a right old cook up.
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