Betwixt

 A new boat chore is to clean some of the algae growing just below the water line, and looking very edible, like frilly leaf lettuce.  I drew the short straw.  On a nice sunny day, quite rare this time of the year in Cape Town, in my new wetsuit, I dipped into the murky harbour water armed with a spatula and a scourer.  John floated fenders around the boat for me to hold on to as I worked scraping the green growth and barnacles off.  We paid professional divers to do this in Richards Bay;  they made it look easy Cape Town was the last stop which would have any supplies or spares needed for our the boat until we reach Brazil.  It was also the last place where we had to make sure that we had everything in order to leave South Africa and the safety of land and shops.   What have we forgotten to do! One can never have enough spares.  It took a couple of weeks to source a spare alternator.  The fitting of the reverse osmosis water maker ...