Varberg
Two positives and a negativ.
First the negative: Two sailing boats, one 60 feet long, the other 53 feet long, both with just two persons on board, occupying much quayside space.
Do they for a moment consider that their selfish opulence hinders other smaller boats from using the same harbour privileges? Do they care?.
Then the positives:
1. Varberg Harbour Authority deserves applause and thanks for painting, in thick layers, those omnipresent tractor tyres used as fenders, normally sooty-black and contagious, in blinding white. No more sooty-black Josin. Even saw a young pair, probably summer-jobbing, with a large can of paint and large dripping-white paint rollers, looking for their next prey. All sorts of harbour furniture were gleaming.
Reminds me of the message roared by the sergeant at us recruits: “If it moves, salute it, if it doesn’t, paint it”.
2. I found a sourdough bakery.
Varberg is a good spot to wait while the weather goes away. Rain last night, low overcast and a strong southerly wind today, keeping all of us trying to head south in this sheltered harbour. Plenty of restaurants and shops, an enormous bookshop, and today a market in the town square, colourful and cheap. Ice cream stalls everywhere, doing excellent trade. I am not a very popular customer, asking for only one small scoop in a small cone. Quite enough to melt and drip in competition with a fast-licking tongue.
Intend to start early tomorrow. First to the diesel pump at the marina on the other side of the harbour entrance, and then south, hopefully in the forecast-favourable wind. So far experience of the reliability of wind forecasts has not been very good. Yesterday for instance was quite wrong in both strength and direction. Ah well, one cannot be right all of the time, not even weather-forecasters. Plans A, B and C are plotted in, depending on how kind the sailing wind is.
And just now returns the sunshine. Must be promising.
Alls Well
JosinJohn
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