After being on Zamindar for a while I noticed some scratches on her bows and on the wooden pontoon, which she¥d obviously been scraping against, so I complained to one of the marineros who were supposed to be looking after her. Only afterwards did I find out that due to the large earthquake that hit Algeria in May, a tidal wave had crossed the Mediterranean and upon hitting the Balearics, sank 87 boats in Mahon harbour. So I stopped complaining.

On returning to the boat yesterday afternoon, however, I discovered that Ithaka, the Farr 56 which had been next to us, had left it¥s berth and caused considerable damage to some of the safety equipment on Zamindar¥s stern in the process of doing so. Even though their boat must be worth a fortune, they¥d decided to do a runner and not even leave a note for me so I¥ve got their details from the marina and I¥m in the process of trying to contact the bastards.