Day in Williamstadt

The weather forecast for Sunday was dismal; strong head winds and heavy rain in the afternoon. We decided that a day in port was in order, but one of the Dutch boats inside us wanted to leave as did Harbinger, and since she was inside a raft there was some shuffling of boats. Kajan ended up with a 27' Bermudan, called Margo, outside her, crewed by a single handed English sailor.

We had coffee and apple cake in the morning, in a café that had wi-fi, so Julian and I picked up e-mail. Then we had a look round the Williamstadt chandlers, which is really good; we bought Yvonne an Omnia oven like we have in Robinetta since her built in one has stopped heating properly. Yvonne tightened all the rigging which had worked itself a bit loose over the last month, then we cooked on board, having just made it to the Supermarket in time on Saturday before it closed. After that it was a peaceful afternoon on board, listening to the rain and reading. We filled up the water tank after dinner since we discovered we'd emptied it.

 The rain cleared in the evening, and the martins came out, hopefully to catch the midges which had given me some nasty bites!