Ti Gitu spent a few days in
St Aubin drying out alongside the wall in soft mud. This is a nice harbour but
the yacht must be able to take the ground. There is electric by card from the
chandlers and water is freely available.
Outside in the bay is an
enormous drying area of fairly hard sand. We planned to use this for one or two
tides to untwist our anchor chain and give the bottom a wipe over to remove
slight slime and a coating of mud from drying out in the harbour.
Ti Gitu spends a lot of time
at anchor and every couple of years I need to lay the anchor chain out as it
becomes twisted. Many people use a stainless swivel to stop this. For two
reasons I do not like them. The first is that I just don't trust them and the
second is that the galvanising (zink) on the chain is anodic to stainless which
means that if used for a while the galvanising on the chain will be gone. There
are galvanised swivels but they tend to be big and would make stowing the
anchor difficult as there is little room on the bow of a junk schooner.
So it is out to dry out and
straighten the chain.
We have cycled a lot and
taken the bus to see the island. It is all nice but everything is expensive
compared to mainland UK and
even compared to Guernsey . A bus journey of
any length on Guernsey costs £1, on Jersey it
is £2.20 so to catch a bus to the bus station and then out to another place the
round trip costs £8.80 for each person. On Guernsey
you can actually go all the way round the island for £1.
Also a consultation with a
doctor was needed which costs £64.00 a time, even people who live here have to
pay over £40. Ouch!!!
One thing we did notice is
that if you stand on a street corner looking at a map then very quickly a Jersey resident will approach you with offers of help and directions. Really friendly people!!
All in all a nice place to
visit but not for too long. Now on to Sark .
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