There is no such thing as plain sailing when you are sailing…if you get my drift.(sorry for the pun!!).On arrival back in St Martin we spent the first week in the marina getting our second auto pilot fitted. Once it was up and running we headed across to Anguilla, a small island just north of St Martin. Our first job was to dive on the boat and remove 4 weeks of growth from the hulls. We were warned that the marine growth in the lagoon where we stayed was bad, but you wouldn’t believe how bad it was unless you actually saw it for yourself. I’m sure if we had stayed any longer the authorities would have declared our hull a national park!!After a morning ashore enjoying the delights of Anguilla – not much there except some very friendly people- Penny took herself off for a sun bathe and I was left pottering on the boat. I was doing a repair to the trampoline when I looked up and saw, 50 metres in front of me, a 1250 tonne cargo ship beam drifting down towards me. It was too late to lift the anchor so I put as much chain out as possible and tried to motor back out of his way. The ship had no control and proceeded to hit the bow of Innforapenny ripping chunks of fibreglass off, bending the bow sprit and leaving paint and gouges down both hulls. My anchor was so tight I thought it would pull the windlass out of the deck. Fortunately I had some bolt cutters on board and was able to cut the chain and release Innforapenny from any further damage. It seems the captain of MV Nerra was trying to leave from the near- by jetty and lost control of his vessel and unfortunately we just happened to be in her path. According to the locals, docking his vessel isn’t his strongest point. When we saw him arrive 2 days before he didn’t quite know what he was doing. Meanwhile Penny was oblivious to the dramas as she basked in the sun, read her book and had a dip when it got too hot. It wasn’t until she saw me leaving that she twigged that something was amiss. Penny missed the whole spectacle but I certainly provided everybody else with some entertainment.The following day was spent diving looking for the anchor. It was a miracle we found it as it was 150m from our original position as that was how far we were dragged.The owners of the vessel offered us $5000 to go away, but we decided to check it out, back at St Martin where the professionals are before accepting any payout figure. It looks as if it could come to more than $14000US.The biggest hassle has been that it has stuffed up our plans, not only have we lost time sorting all the problems out, but we will need to get work done to the boat when it next comes out of the water and Panama probably won’t be the best place. We will have to decide in the next couple of days what to do…