New Cutless bearing installed

Yes we finally got hauled out of the water and the new cutless bearing has been fitted. This one was a much tighter fit and took a lot of work to press it into the strut. Also two extra grub screws were added to make sure!! I will be very surprised if this one moves and I hope we don't need to remove it for a long time. The last one lasted seven years.

It is great to know that we can motor for a while if we need to now.

So where next...we have looked at the marina costs in Madeira and it is about three times the cost of the Azores so we think we will go straight to Morocco from the Azores.

The problem with all these volcanic islands in the middle of the ocean is that there is deep water all around and very few places to anchor. There are no nice little protected bays to anchor in so even if you do find somewhere that is shallow enough, it will be exposed to the open sea and will be very uncomfortable on anchor.

We are currently looking at being in Morocco for early October, before the winter storms get too bad.