Solea in San Remo

We spent our first week onboard Solea securely tied to the dock in San Remo, whilst we got our heads around the boat! It was great to have this time to go through everything. I am lucky as the old Mate is onboard until the end of June but unfortunately for Colin, the previous engineer has already left so he doesn't get a handover. He is figuring it all our for himself, once again!The boat is very different to what we are used to and everything is of commercial size so its going to take some getting used to!

I celebrated my 29th birthday whilst in San Remo and was suprised by the crew with balloons and banners in the crew mess as well as some lovely presents and an awesome chocolate birthday cake. We went out for dinner in the evening to celebrate.

As we were pretty busy we only managed to get a quick look around San Remo. We did get to meet up with some of the crews on the other boats and on our last night we enjoyed sundowners on the rocks behind the boat.