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It’s nice to be back on the water with the sound of fish occasionally leaping out of the water. Mind you, we have no inclination to go swimming as it’s still just as murky in the river here. I reckon the fish jump merely to see where they’re going. The countdown clock is set. Our […] Splashing / launching went well. With the Tahina’s (including ex-crew Paul who we’d met in Kelefesia) and Sea Mist’s looking on we were trailered down the ramp into the water. We sat there while I went through my checklist. Of particular focus was all our through hulls, particularly the genset water exhaust. I’ve done a […] In a blizzard of last day activity we’re finally ready to go. Final projects : Raised dinghy Attached sails – they look nice Attached rudders Assembled steering gear Mailed letter to US / and camera case (TradeMe auction finally went through) Paid everyone – arggh. Installed extra handrails on scoops. This was not on the […] I hope this is our last full day ‘status’ report of life on the hard. There’s an expression : “Life is hard in the yard.” It’s true. Wrote a launch checklist. Having played around with the underwater bits I want to be sure we catch any leaks as early as possible. Tied on new jib […] Sooner or later we’ll run out of things to do. But not this day. We ended up on a bit of a roll : Hung up the sea anchor again to try and remove more of the dampness. After another full day up the mast we came to the conclusion that it really needs a […] |
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