chance meeting

We were in Porto Colom on Majorca on 22nd April 1988 after wintering aboard our boat SAGITTAIRE in Palma on the second year into our 6 year livaboard trip from UK to the Mediterranean. We had bought the boat in the Helford River. Some friends had invited us to share a hire car for a sightseeing trip inland so we left our dinghy on the seawall after rowing in it ashore. We left it upturned with the eight inch letters of the boats name very clearly visible, SAGITTAIRE. On our return later that day we found a scribbled note under the dinghy from a holiday maker asking if we were the SAGITTAIRE that she had spent so much of her childhood on. As she said her name and that she also came from near HELFORD we guessed we were. She asked her to meet her ashore the next day if we were the same boat which we of course were delighted to do. We brought her back on board and she was tearful when she saw the old vessel again and we spent a happy time together that day. She was renting a villa Near Porto Colom and had just come down to the port for a visit.