The adventure is over or parked for the winter. We cleaned the sails and equipment, got all the salt off the boat, dried everything and had a brief spell enjoying Falmouth.
Falmouth is nice, lifely with a real boating scene: sailclubs, fancy restaurants and all. They also have a big maritime museum here. It is as different from the gritty Scottish and Irish scene (excl. Dublin) as you can have it. The bay is very pretty with about 5 rivers running into it and many boats moored.
We hauled Hartendief out of the water yesterday and crew 4 (Rene, Pieter and Matthew) took the taxi this morning at 4 (!). We slept on the boat while when it was already parked on the hard which invoked a scene described by Pieter about Russian sailors stuck on their ship in midwinter Petersburg unable to sail.. It is surely more classy to sleep on a boat when it is in the water :)
The marina here is fantastic with shops, all facilities thinkable. A good place for the winter.
Next year we hope to use Falmouth as starting point for our family vacation and than have a last leg of our round Britain adventure for a last crew to take here back with me. From Falmouth to the Netherlands is about 350 miles of coastal sailing and that should be a wizz compared to the tough bits we went through.
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