We kind of loaded around the morning, reading, playing computer games and that sort of thing. Feeling a bit guilty, we took a walk up Parahaki hill that looks down over Whangarei. This at least gave us our daily exercise.
On the way back we visited the supermarket to pick up some food and wine (yes – it’s almost all gone now) for the evening.
Back on the dock we got talking to Jeff and Cherryl on the boat next to us, Sub Zero. Turns out this boat used to be owned by another 420 hybrid owner who I had, just that morning, got in contact with regarding possible sale of components for spares. It’s a small world. They’ve just sailed in from Australia having spent the season in New Caledonia on the way. We’re meeting up this evening to share info. We have plenty on Tonga and Fiji where they’re heading next year and it would be great for us to get info on New Caledonia.
In the evening Dan and Amy from Division II came by with their three kids, Paige, Oliver and Reilly. The kids, as is usual with boat kids, were very polite, engaging with adults but still kids and a lot of fun. I’d used the excuse to get in some ice cream for desert which we very rarely do. No doubt all the calories burned during the day were more than compensated for in the evening.
One other story that is now playing out. We received confirmed dates for the conversion work from Lagoon. Good in that it’s happening. Not good in that it was three weeks earlier than we’d requested placing it before Ben and Sam are due to fly to meet us in the Uk. So emails have been flying and it looks like the dates are shifting but we may still have some complications that will have to be managed. We’ll see.
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