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Zero

That’s the number of boat projects attempted Sunday. Zero. Count ’em. Been a long time since we’ve had a full day off.

I did do my ‘sea trial’ of the new kayak giving myself some good arm exercise. I paddled almost all the way to the next bay and in the way back I explored […]

Back to Russell

We had a relaxed start to the day. We didn’t have a lot on our plates so there was no rush. We read a little and I tackled another Euler problem, finding a smarter algorithm than the last time. I checked on our part and it was still on hold in the East Midlands so […]

Back to Motorua Island

Once we were awake and breakfasted we set about a few things about the boat. I lowered the dinghy, attached the motor and gave it a test. I then set about my new nemesis, the shaft seal. I installed the new drip tray and connected the hose to the somewhat redundant A/C drain tube which […]

Leak

We awoke after a very solid nights sleep. Something about life on the water. We set about tackling a couple of the issues we’d discovered the previous day. I opened up the cabin ceiling and removed all the 12 nuts for the two sets of clamps which I wanted to swap. The clamps themselves were […]

Shakeout

We made it to Whangamumu Harbour arriving around dusk. Normally I wouldn’t want to arrive in an anchorage in poor light but we’d been here before and were familiar with the bay. Our total fish tally for the trip was zero but we did spot dolphins. True Companions came in right behind us and we […]