We sailed to Cape Town to book out BUT things went WRONG‼️

We sailed to Cape Town To check out for our final departure and we had a few things go wrong. I was quite confident after taking a look at the marina and our docking spot, the week before sailing down that I would be able to get us through the marina and docked safely. What I hadn’t taken into account was being pushed into the marina by gusts of wind directly behind us. I hadn’t experienced that before and things went horribly wrong but after a total meltdown Robin stepped in and got us safely into the mooring within minutes. During the sail we discovered that we needed vacuum breaks on our raw water system because we suspect, after the engine wouldn’t start en-route, that water had got from the exhaust system back into the engine. After our initial panic thinking this was going to be a huge problem that would affect our departure date, we calmed down, and with the help of Chris Booke, we managed to get the systems on both engines sorted and left, to return to Saldanha Bay at 7pm in the evening. The sails both, to and from Cape Town went very well, we were frozen to the bone and Teagan and I got pretty seasick but the trip was a great experience. After buying a boat in South Africa, Robin had always talked about how he would love to leave Cape Town and see Table Mountain in his rear view mirror - well leaving Cape Town at 7pm we were blessed with a beautiful sunset and the experience was pretty spectacular - bucket list item ✅ for Robin.