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Am I in any way impressed? No.

So the part wasn’t there on Thursday. Nor was it there on Friday. 1 week in Spain and we still have no circuit breaker.

So here we are watching each day go by knowing that each day gone is one day less on Dignity when we travel down to the BVIs in less than 4 weeks. Miracles could happen but they take a little effort and people being prepared to anticipate difficulties and I just don’t get the impression the second bit is happening.

Perhaps I’m expecting too much to expect the boating industry to operate like a modern business with focus on risks and planning for contingencies. Seems strange because that’s the essence of boating itself – everything has a contingency plan – including your contingency plans. Almost everything it seems.

You can probably tell I’m not in a good mood. The only ray of light in all this were some kind words from the CatCo folks down in Nanny Cay who have provided assurance they’ll do their best to turn Dignity around once she arrives.

7:20am my time is when I expect the satellite uplink. I’ll be watching tomorrow with my fingers crossed but expectations low.

So on Tuesday I was told it was the circuit breaker on the generator that was the problem that brought Dignity to Spain. It was already too late to ship the part on Tuesday so I was assured that the spare part would be mailed over night on Wednesday to arrive on Thursday and the Onan engineer would be there to fit it it when it arrived.

Good news – the part arrived today (I am told). Bad news – the engineer didn’t. Way to go guys.

Maybe tomorrow.

I’m getting a few interested readers to the site. Nice to know people are taking different things from my ramblings. Big thanks to all who have provided me feedback.

I’d like to thank Adrian Power who has sent me a few weather links for the site. Given that Dignity is currently in Spain awaiting parts (hopefully tomorrow), I find this one particularly interesting: http://www.xcweather.co.uk/?Loc=ES. I have put a few others onto my links page.

Dignity did indeed head into Santander, Spain. I hope to learn tomorrow what the cause was but my best guess was that the weather forced them in. The predictions of wave heights has a real mess in Biscay right now which will clear in the next day or two.

Didn’t get my 11am fix yesterday. This was to be expected from time to time and it has already happened once before. Yesterday evening I received a brief note from the broker to say that Dignity’s first stopover would be in Spain and that next communication will be on Monday. Got a fix this morning to find she’s making fairly slow progress towards Santander in Spain. My first hope is that the crew are ok but this is putting a bit of a damper on things. Now I have to wait out the weekend to find out what’s up. The joys of boating.