falmouth

falmouth is a nice town with a good chandler and an excellent chart agent and the pubs and restaurants aren't bad either.

you can browse the internet for free for half an hour in the public library, which is where i'd go and check the weather forecasts each day.

a couple on a catamaran had just returned from a trip around the world and they told me to use Wetterzentrale. i had to wait 4 days for a forecast without the word 'gale' in it.

i went to the chandler and bought a solar still and a waterproof 'grab bag' and i asked the chart agent for 'a mercator projection chart from here to the azores' and he had it on the counter in a second and said 'this is what you want', and it was.