A friends question answered. What do you do in port?

Mainly pick up the pieces from what has gone wrong out at sea.  We visit people, and speak to them, I share my faith as the door opens, I find a good church, I enjoy the natural beauty of the place I arrive, and blue belle and I inevitably go for long walks and runs.  This takes all our effort.  And there also is usually some days of serious rest as being at sea is a hard life and when you do make it to port, you just want to rest after getting rid of the cabin fever with a long walk or run.

I must say though, I have only made minimum stops; because I must get back to St. Thomas where I was supposed to be in September.  It is critical that I reach there as soon as possible, so I have only stopped when absolutely necessary ... We have passed up hundreds of opportunities to stop and sight see and visit the people....  The last leg of our trip put me at Sea for Two weeks.  Three of those days I was adrift trying to rig the steering to work again... We managed to get it going again and then I came on here to La Palma.  We would have gone to Tenerife, but I wanted to arrive in a port with daylight, as they can be very tricky to navigate...  

To finish, I will say: in port, most time and energy are spent on solving problems with the boat, and trying to figure out how to go to the next point....  While on the U.K. I was taken 

advantage of quite a bit and when I left there, I was literally broke... So the rest of the journey has been entirely by faith.  Which in itself is good spiritual excercise, but doesn't excuse the shady dealings that were done to me there in the U.K.  It is terrible to think about these experiences, and not worth it to talking about to the support and encouragement of those following me on the journey.  However, I must admit there wrongs hurt, and if I can help someone else not have to go through the pain and suffering I had to go through.... (It was horrific)...  Enough said about that... I forgive in Jesus name.  God will vindicate, he will repay...from Largs, to Holyhead and all places betwixt and between...He sees it all...to be sure, most time and energy at this point is spent on figuring out a way to get to the next stop and home...

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La Palma Canary Islands... we are here!

We left Muxia on November 9, at about 18:00 and set sail for Tenerife.  We were out three days and our steering cable broke.  then I spent the next three days adrift at sea (which is surprisingly like camping in the middle of the woods, only no hiking...)  and finally got it working after an email was sent to me from the designers son Jon Lack via my boat broker Carl and within an hour I was fixed and under way...  it broke again three days after that,  but this time I knew exactly what to do and once I replace the cable with new cable and clamps "WE WILL BE GOOD TO GO"...  The new cable I had had become compromised due to all the different ways I was trying to hook up the steering which by the way was never  put on properly, and unbelievably no one who sold me the boat decided to tell me that little secret even though they knew what I was trying to accomplish.. ( I FORGIVE THE CROOKS I RAN INTO IN THE U.K. LORD, and ask you to deal severely with them for your servant Christopher's sake)...  (And we bless all the good people we met in the U.K. as well who genuinely loved us and seriously tried their best to help us....)
Well, we are here in the Canaries, hope to leave soon but need to pay for the Marina, repairs/(supplies for the repairs), gas and food, and get going....  from here we are about three weeks out as long as we don't have to go adrift again:-)  It was a great experience though and it taught me once again if you have a problem, don't go to others...  go to the source....Go to the designer....if he isn't available go to his son..... "If you have seen me, said Jesus (the son) then you have seen the Father....  This is a trustworthy and true saying... I am hopeful it helps you like it has me...
Also check out 2 Corinthians chapter 11....Paul the apostle faced many problems at sea... which make my troubles seem insignificant...
All the best.  I love you all and ask you to check out the GO FUND ME PAGE and contribute, and check out the You Tube page and see updated videos of the journey... (GIVE me some time on this as wifi here is very slow...

All the best, and enjoy the pictures below: