25/10/2020

Left North Keppel this morning heading for South Keppel, only with the mainsail still keeping 6-7 knots.

Arrived at the destination and anchored the boat next to Rory’s new boat then we invited him over for tea. He is the Perth guy who made the first offer on Dagmar. He and J had only spoken on the phone before 

they finally met each other today. He is an interesting guy. Came with his family from Ireland to Perth in his early teens, surfed everywhere in his youth, backpacked and hitchhiked around until he had a motorcycle accident which caused half of his body a bit uncoordinated. He met his current wife in Canada and they lived on a boat and sailed around the oceans. Later they had children so they moved back to land, started a business to support the family. One year he almost died from a malignant tumor in his eye, which was removed soon and turned him into a one-eyed-man (the fake eye was so realistic you couldn’t notice). Immediately after his recovery, he sold his business to travel with his wife and spend all his money. Now that his children have grown up and left home, he even became a grandfather. By observing those repetitive life cycles, He found something in his life is greatly missing: Salt! It’s time to go back the the water. Due to financial problems he did not buy Dagmar, but ended up buying a smaller boat which is much easier to handle by himself, and he is very happy with it and sailed around the Keppels. He’s been in the Great Keppels for a month and knows the islands like the back of his hand, as he told us yesterday about the place where we could take a shower. He said he noticed the change in him since returning to the boat, more flexible, lighter and generally a happier man.

It started raining when Rory got back to his boat. We collected a lot of rain water and did some laundry.

Stir fry pork with shredded potatoes for dinner.