We have spent a few days in our favourite places , just giving Franz and Monika a taste of Croatia as they have never ventured here before. The last two days we decided to spend at the west end of Solta (pronounced sholta).
It was a perfect day to sail force 3 S.W. from SV Klements Islands, This is a following wind so it makes the yacht , kind of surf the waves and a roll a bit.
I think it is similar to being in a top loader washing machine, our guest were extremely quiet for most of the day( maybe a little see krank) but soon perked up when we started the motor!!!
Unfortunately the heat was also not helping either !!
This end of Solta is also very nice and has a couple of small islands at the tip near Sesula and Maslinica, we decided to anchor at Sesula, and then walk across to Maslinica, (Maslinica has a very nice marina just been opened)
Sesula is quite deep in parts so we decided to stern tie, as i have mention before it is a bit of a challenge – but this time we have help from Franz, all goes well until I need to relay instructions – now Franz’s English is not to bad , and I can understand German pretty good, but speaking just doesn’t come naturally , sooo what sounds good in my head comes outs totally foreign to everyone, so i had Franz moving Wabo jnr from the stern to the bow , saying “here oder HERE” when i actually wanted the anchor let out, poor Frank is standing on the rocks , rope in hand saying Nay Nay Die anchor Franz !!! Finally we are held fest . What i found amusing was that we were being photographed , or maybe a movie. Perhaps! it was because Frank was stern tying in the all together!!!! ( he’s just missing the beautiful flowing locks!!! )
Sesula also has buoys that belong to the restaurant, now these proved to be a bit of a challenge for a family on a hire yacht !
We were just having a quiet beer at the restaurant after walking back from Maslinica, and we watched the drama unfold.
As the yacht was leaving the mooring it somehow collected the lazy line and this got caught around the propeller, after watching for sometime,
Frank just couldn’t sit and watch and finally went to help,much to the relief of the men on board , and the other yacht owners who were fending of the yacht with their feet. He accessed the situation and the lazy line was secure around the prop, that was all that was stopping it from drifting on to the other yachts. The solution was to attach a line from the yacht to the buoy and winch the yacht to relieve the pressure on the line and remove it from the propeller BUT the mum in the water had a better idea!
Tie a rope to the offending lazy line and then mum , daughter and Frank could swim backwards really fast and this would free the the rope from the propeller !!!!!! This may have gone on for sometime without franks help!
After a little bit of discussion Frank took off his goggles and said “Halt diene Fresse” if you wish me to help. Which she did and the yacht was finally free within minutes and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
They then made a quick exit!!!!
We must now head back to base as our guest were only here for a short time.
We now only have a couple of days of relaxation and time to mentally prepare for the dream awakening !!!
