I had little faith that the new engine mountings would arrive in sensible time so on the Saturday I cycled round to the marine industrial area to see if I could find anything that would do.
I found a really nice helpful marina engineer who said that no one kept many spares and explained the import shenanigans. This meant that I was able to pre pay the import duty and the mounts arrived on the Monday and I collected them on the Tuesday.
It took a couple of days for me to fit them, everything seems to take longer these days!!
We went by bus round to Gorey on the East of Jersey to climb up to the very impressive castle where there was also a display of hawkery.
The weather is still poor for sailing and as it was the British GP we decided to stay and move on after the weekend.
St Aubin is a lovely place and despite the harbour drying for most of the time we enjoy being here. The harbour is centuries old and in good condition despite the breakwaters being dry built, with no mortar. They certainly knew how to build things back then.
We have decided to go across to Carteret in France for a while, especially as strong Easterly winds are forecast. We have phoned the marina who have asked us not to arrive until Thursday as they have over 100 race boats arriving to overnight on the Wednesday.
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