Leaving Again

The nice clean props, all ready to go, No More Barnicles!



One of our Very Large Motors, all realigned and new cutlas bearings ready to go.



A comparison picture with the batttery drill.










Hard at work putting on one of four coats of antifoul, hopefully this will last longer than a year this time!



Div II with her new pink/purple bottom. Pink in the sun light, but nearly purple when wet.



New windgenerator, one each side with the cool looking carbon fibre poles and braces.



Our new wind generator before braces going on.


Well here we go again. The boat is FULL with food, water and books. Also a bit of food, wine and fuel to help us on our way and we are ready to set sail for Fiji for the winter.
All going well we will clear first thing 0900 Monday morning from Marsden Cove and around 10 days later arrive in Lautoka, Fiji.
Some changes from last time are we have a new to us dinghy, for the cost of a box of beer and the time it took Dan to repair it, two new wind generators and great carbon fibre poles and braces thanks again to Dan and Kilwells in Rotorua. Also a second hand satellite phone and a beer brewing kit!
We have a boy with a broken collar bone – about 4 weeks ago now but he still needs to be careful with it, though as I am writing this I think he is out on his scooter! And I have just had a steroid injection in my right shoulder for Impingement of my tendons, so making sure I look after that for the next couple of weeks. But we do have two very able bodied and experienced crew coming with us this time so I should be able to sit and relax a bit more on this trip!
Anyway, keeping this one short, and will let you all know when we get there. The To Do Jobs list is slowly getting shorter but no matter how organised you think you are we have still been working really hard the last two weeks and especially the last couple of days getting sorted and now feeling very tired, but once we are out there we should be able to relax a bit, just steer/eat/read and sleep...