A few days at anchor

What do you do the whole day long? Well for example filling up the gas tank for the Dinghy and take it to shopping in the village of Alvor.
Then head back, have lunch and a nap for the little one. Meanwhile you swim around the boat and clean the area where the antifouling marine coating ends (thats the under water coating) and the white of the glassfibre of the boat starts. You use a sponge and swim around the boat and clean that. Ah yeah right, a catamaran has 4 sides :-(
All together we have around 50m of cleaning area, where you scrub with one hand and swim with the other.
After you are done with that, its time for some free diving, but only half a meter deep to the saildrives and propellers. Even though LinoCat has been in the water only around 5 weeks, there is significant growth on the saildrive shafts and so it took me maybe 20 dives to scrub it off.
Then a little bit of more swimming and splashing with the little one. In the bay of Alvor our thermometer showed 28 Celcius. NICE!
At 17.30 Local time (that is 16.30 UTC) i was on the HF radio and talking to Tom. Tom is on his way to Falmouth in the UK aboard the Sailing Yacht Breakpoint. Check out his blog: www.sy-breakpoint.de
He is in serious weather and has problems with his rig. Some german amateur radio operators are guiding him and keep him entertained.

After that i checked the output of the solar panels and it was 3kWh or 250Ah. Thats cool. Nevertheless after a long shower session with Lani i have used up all that electricity to warm up the water.

Then some rounds of Skip-Bo, a card game and then a good night sleep.
The next morning there was no sunshine for the first time since we arrived in Portugal. So i had the testday to see ho much power the panels would produce. It was only around 1kwH or 99Ah. Thats still not bad.
The left engine is still not fully charging the batteries and the right engine makes a strange noise so tomorrow i will dive into the narrow engine compartments. How said that this would be a holiday? As a manager i would normally tell others to check the engines :-) Here i have to do it on my own! SH*T!c
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So on Monday we headed one again to Portimao in average weather and got a rental car until wednesday. The shop with the gas bottles for cooking was closed, good that we always have two tanks. One 2,75kg butan gas tank now lasted around 3 weeks since we use it 3 times a day for coffee, cooking , frying etc.
Also all our lifevests went for servicing today. I got promised that we have them back "around one day" later. Lets see what this means. One of the lifejackets (actual mine) might be out of order due to the zippers not functioning anymore. That would be expensive.

I also ordered some parts to Madeira and i ordered new emergency rockets, flares and signal smoke for our boat since the old flares and rockets are out of date. Do we fire them at new year? We are supposed not to do that! :-)

Then a quick trip to the Continente supermarket and we took Liz from the boat Jalan-Jalan along.
The normal cleaning of the boat with the waterhose was also done.
Dinner was chicken-curry with rice and now some Milka chocolate.

Thats it for now.