I MUST TAKE THE PARSUN MOTOR TO MALTA FOR THE WARRANTY CLAIM

With just a week to go before we want to sail, and one week since the engine was started at the boatyard and the big problem was seen I am finally advised that only a Parsun dealer can start warranty work so I must take the car specially to Malta by ferry to take the outboard to the dealer there.

It is busy time of year of course as boats return to the water for the summer so even if he can get the parts and get it fixed it is not going to happen within two weeks for sure, and perhaps more and I will have to make another ferry crossing to Malta to collect it. Virtue Ferries Malta to Sicily are expensive.

I am considering the option to buy a new outboard with proven record like Yamaha or Honda, and get one shipped from UK where prices will be more keen, especially as the British Pound buys so few euros since the Brexit madness. One can be sold later. If we have to remain in the marina waiting we will be paying summer prices and still not enjoying the long summer cruise.

It is calm as I write I the evening but it was another windy day, despite only 11 knots forecast, and there has been the constant screaming sounds through the rigging of multiple boats which gets tiring after a time. The catamaran in the photo was anchored outside the marine in a most uncomfortable swell. Eventually the wind came round to the North so their night should be ok as the swell dies down.