Month: August 2018

Waiter pouring Sangria with Lunara anchored in the bay behind.

While checking out a Marina on the west side of Ibiza, I used Google Chrome to instantaneously translate the website. Google’s translation is typically quite good. But today it’s just funny. Can you spot the special service?

So being in this beautiful anchorage is paradise. Well, not so much sometimes. On an anchorage you need water, right? No problem! We have a water maker, when it works. So we started the water maker and received a “blocked system” message. Ok, get out the manual and see what it means. So after the first start up of the season it needs to be primed? Fine, did that. Start again, but the same thing is happening after a few minutes, and again. So we found the water maker was leaking salt water and not having enough pressure. Tried the 2nd pump and this one seems to work. Not making the advertised 60 liters/hour but better than nothing. Took us 6 hours to resolve.

Next day we find that our bilge pump is not working, tried the hand pump to empty the bilge and it breaks alter a few pumps. Ok, fix it. Again 3 hours later working again on the electrical pump. Martin is able to fix the electric pump with pieces from a coke can, long story, but it works. Another 6 hours gone.

This morning we had to cut our breakfast short. A big thunderstorm was heading our way. We got lots of wind and rain and all our salon hatches began to leak. Have to place bowls everywhere.

We decide to leave the anchorage. The sand from the beach is washing from the beach and the anchorage water is silting such that we were concerned about the engine water cooling pumps. Heading to Port Sant Antoni. This was a good decision. One hour later all the boats from our old anchorage were following and the good spots were gone fast. It is still raining but not that heavy. This gives me a break and I have time to do a little update on the blog.

So that is paradise! There is always something to fix on a boat. I could go on and on about this, but it will get boring after time.

Having a nice breeze and big rolling waves until midnight! After that it was no wind at all and we motored for 8 hours! Having wind again for nearly the rest of the way! The last 2 hours we had to use the engines again! We arrived in Ibiza at 3 pm. Found a very nice anchorage! After some difficulties anchoring ( after we realized our chain counter is totally off) we did fine! Martin dived to check the anchor and was totally down after he came back. Our anchor chain was wrapped around a rock and the anchor was jammed between two rocks. He was afraid we will not get it out. So we had to start the whole procedure again. Martin steered the boat so perfectly over the anchor, that I was able to get it up without a problem. Now we had to find a new spot and set it again. This went without any problems. Pheeeeeeewwwwww!

First thing we did was jump in the water and cooled down. This felt really good. After that we did a little dinghy tour to explore the area.

Not much to see during the trip. We had a really nice sunset! Having no internet connection, will post pictures soon.