Category Archives: New Zealand

Monday on the hard

With good weather we managed to make good progress on Monday against our task list. In no particular order, here is what we got up to. Helen spent a good part of the day applying anti-rust paste to the various … Continue reading

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Busy Sunday

For most of the day the weather was variable, sometimes raining and sometimes not. We made a list of things to do including outside and inside tasks and alternated as the opportunity to work outside arose. On the inside I … Continue reading

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Slow progress …

We were provided some moments of reprieve between rain showers yesterday which allowed us some progress against our task list on Saturday. As mentioned I removed the nipple from our genset exhaust through hull fitting and found it brittle. A … Continue reading

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Friday it rained

And it rained. And it rained. And then. It rained some more. And it was windy. There was some progress though. The yard was able to assign two chaps to start the sanding of the hulls under the cabin. They … Continue reading

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Hauled out

Thursday turned out to be a long day. As we were rousing for breakfast we were visited by the sail maker who wanted to take some measurements of the rigging. Once that was complete I made another wine run in … Continue reading

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