We arranged a visit from the local marine electrician yesterday – he promised to arrive at the boat at 10.00 this morning. At just after midday Graham lost patience and walked round to the office and to find he was 'just on his way'! We found that we shared no common language so we did a bit of a comedy routine of typing in sentences into Google Translate on the laptop; we'd checked all the obvious problems with the engine alternator and batteries so Jose tinkered about but didn't find anything obvious and said (via Google Translate) that he couldn't spend any time on the problem before the weekend.
We're only a day's sail away from the major nautical centres of Vigo and Baiona so, having confirmed that we won't do any damage by running the engine in its current state, we'll head down there to find an electrician on Monday. The forecast for the next couple of days isn't great – rain, shock-horror, and wind. We are very pleased that we got round Cape Finisterre when we did as they are forecasting 40-45mph south westerlies there on Sunday. The calm waters we experienced will be anything but!
The internet connection here is very slow but we'll try to post some more photos in the morning
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