Tag: 2011

is back where it belongs. The mechanic of Le Marin did a very good job. In between works, we had a drink in the bar and had another drink in the bar, met people, had a drink in the bar and then another drink in the bar…

We had an infight with the installation procedure of the wind vane. We are ready to install. Somehow we got a new crew member with Delphine, who seems to be lonely, had a thing with our skip and now is aboard.

We have left the boat yard. After a couple of days with a daily downpour of one to two hours, which made certain jobs a pain in the a.., we finally have the blue beneath our keel, which is the only thing that feels right when on a boat.

The engine, which should have come today (according to Murphy’s 1st law) is not finished. But we are busy with the fathometer and stuff I don’t know the words for neither in German or English, but funky shit.

Boat yard, boat yard. Antifouling. Depth sensor. Drilling holes into the hull…

The little gas station we call “Babylon” is a funny place which would fit the Beatles song “Seargent Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Leaving. Funny, but this time was really sad… I will miss the kids a lot. Well, I opened my birthday present today and was quite surprised how my “old life” I have given away slowly (or at least parts of it) returns to me…

Today we finished the service on the two big winches. Robert and me took them apart, cleaned them and remounted them. We got another badyl sunburn, especially Robert who looked like a lobster afterwards ;).

We went looking for Lucie to play a tune for her on her guitar which now is my guitar… We didn`t find her on her boat, but found Denise and Jean-Pierre, whom I asked for a leg across to St. Lucia. They said that they would leave on Friday, which is just the right date for me. Nice. So let`s see. I turned a smiling eye towards the cosmic wheels…

Boys day out. Back to the marina. Getting the babystay (which turned out to be one metre too short, but still cost over 300 Euros. Yeah, the big F-word…over and over again)
The rest of the day was winch day.