The plan for the weekend was to work a bit of saturday and then work a little on sunday so that we could go for a trek in the hills on sunsday afternoon...
Little did we know what was about to happen. To explain a little bit beforehand, part of the windows that i am out here replacing consist of a sheet of glass which slides in a stainless steel runner lined with furry stuff. This is than fitted into a stainless or brass frame (part of the boat) and this is then fitted into the wooden surround and held in place by a nice neat flat polished stainless frame with screws on the front.
We had given the local shipyard the inner brass and stainless frames so that they could make us up the new stainless and furry liners and there had been no real problems (apart from a few not fitting). So Roger went to the yard on saturday morning to collect the other half only to find that the yard had made up the new liners and then folded up our frames and thrown them in the skip!
So the yard manager was summonsed to the boat...... What happened can't really be described involving the yard guy saying it was our fault for leaving them with him and then lisa interjecting only only to be told that the yard manager would not deal with a woman only the aptain and then a long diatribe about how arguing about blame was like the Israelis and Palestinians it could go on forever and with that he walked off the boat taking his dog saying ......come and find me monday and maybe we can sort it out.....
As you can imagine this sort of set the tone for the day... we carried on working up to three in the afternoon and then decided to set off for the big excitement.... to cheer us up.....
The San Remo Ice Cream Festival!!!!
What a way to spend an afternoon, Jostling with Italians fighting over free, yes free, icecream.......
There more flavours than i can remember and the best thing had to be the ice cream maker making it on site using a traditional hand powered churn and asking the audience to help.....It was worth the wait....each mix only served about 10 people so you had to have long arms and sharp elbows!!
After that we headed down toward the old port to watch the San Remo round of the "national?" go cart championship.....it all happens here!!
After we had had our fill of two stroke fumes it was back to a local bar for a few pre dinner drinks and then back to the boat...
I must say that the day finished rather better than we thought it would earlier.....
Sadly the weather on sunday didn't look to good so we decided to swap days and carry on with the work. It was nice to actually complete the windows in the wheelhouse which actually meant that we could take down the polythene on one side at least.
We also made a definite plan for my schedule in that i am only going to fly back to Cowes for a few days to teach the Grp course then come back and work here for another week.... i know its a tough job but some ones got to do it......
Hopefully monday will be a day off if we can sort the yard out first thing.........
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