Up Date

Hello to you all our there who must have thought we have dropped off the face of the earth. January was a work month for me and the first two and a half weeks of February saw Dan doing some repair work on another catamaran for some friends, so we weren't getting out and about much. We have also started home schooling the kids in this time.

On the boat front we were disabled for over two weeks by not having any power getting to the Port motor, which after numerous emails and phone calls to a completely different time zone our long suffering autosparkies managed to sort out for us. This limited the evening sails but as soon as we were up and going again took advantage of the great weather and headed out most days after work for tea out on the boat and a swim, usually off of Tahuna beach or Haulashore Island.

Since then we have had a couple of longer trips away, one of which I will also post about today and our current one where we are now in Takaka enjoying staying in a house with all the mod cons, while Dan does the smelly job of putting down some flooring in the saloon, to replace the taped down cardboard that we have been living on! He has also been busy finishing water and black tanks, making our table, and getting closer to putting on all the fiddles on the shelves. We are now in the berth we are meant to be in as that has been completed, and every time we go out we find a little something else to do, such as elbows on the drain holes to stop the water coming UP them it a wave hits us right. It is not very pleasant to have cold water forced up your shorts leg when you least expect it!

The next couple of months will hopefully be spent cruising around Tasman Bay and the Marlborough Sounds before we will need to settle back into work for the winter.