26th September

It was definitely the storm after the lull. We ate at a restaurant by Imagine's stern on a balmy evening. Shortly after we went to bed the wind started to blow. We had to get out a couple of times in the night to untangle ropes. In the morning I had to row the dinghy round the front of Paul's mega yacht to stop it banging our neighbour's bows. We tightened up on the anchor chain and checked all the lines. The wind in the shelter of the harbour is 25 knots. The few boats that anchored across the inlet must have had a miserable night. Most of them have already cleared off in search of better shelter. Where I don't know. We're happy and hopefully secure. However I'm not sure how we get onto the quay as various ropes are preventing us lowering our passerrelle (gangplank). During the day the wind continued to blow. We adjusted lines, checked the anchors and now we wait.