boat hire in Roses · Chaparral — 285ssi (2004)

Although the boat was nice and was looking good with enough space we unfortunately had technical problems with the boat. Thank god we had a skipper! There was some signal coming from the boat from the beginning and the skipper needed contact with his technical colleague by phone but he was not able to solve it by phone. So we decided to go slowly since there was only a signal when going fast. But after a long travel towards Illes Meddes and some snorkling we continued but suddenly there was a big bang coming from the back and the steering “broke down” and we made water. Thank god we were close to other boats and another boat was able to pull us to a harbour. We were safe, the skipper was fine, but I believe that the boat was not in good condition from the start and (although my Spanish is not in perfect order) I think our boat was not insured well; there was not a “7” which insured the passengers so thankfully we were not harmed in this event. All in all, we had a good trip at the start which turned bad halfway and took up our entire afternoon….But I must say that David was a good sport in settling this matter financially with us because this was not how we expected our day trip to go…