Absolutely no wind last Wednesday so we were motoring from Santa Maria to Sao Miguel the next island, lovely sunny day. About 6 miles out (I presume) we ran over a net, just floating debris, green- blue polypropylene, would never have seen it. Wound round the prop and disabled the engine. The marina can only tow you in from just inside the harbour so we were trying to sail in no wind making one knot towards our destination. Then even that bit of wind went away so we are just drifting, no steerage way. The Maritime Police are monitoring our position and eventually they manage to organise us a v expensive tow (1200 euros for only 3 miles!) by a Sport Fishing boat. The Marine police were brilliant and at least stopped the guys with the boat from ripping us off any further (by threatening to recheck all their licences). We didn’t have much choice as no wind forecast for several days. At least there doesn’t seem to be any permanent damage to the engine. The engineer and the diver were not expensive. I did go and look with the snorkel next morning but would’ve taken me ages to clear it, was very tough to cut and took the diver with a tank about 3 mins. Otherwise it’s lovely here. Helpful marina, engineer and diver.