Time is a ticking!

Reality is starting to hit as February half term approaches. Kids are being packed off to grandparents to give us some child free time to work on preparations. My plans to spend all week working on the house have been scuppered by Patrick not being able to carry over as many holiday days as we'd hoped and having to take them next week too. He votes for spending time on Laurin so we'll be doing a bit of both.


The electronics ordered at the boatshow have arrived and Bru has fitted the new wheel pilot drive. The enforced choice of the 7" plotter has meant that it actually fits in the panel to port of the speed, depth and wind instruments. This was an unexpected bonus as it leaves more space under the sprayhood for a kind of mini, on deck, chart table. As Bru was doing his magic we attacked some woodworking jobs, fitting a shelf for the printer, making a mount for the kedge anchor to sit on the back of the boat, and various other little jobs. The new sprayhood and stackpack are now ready, just waiting for tabs to be put on the sprayhood to attach our new solar panel to and we also got our outboard repaired and serviced with a remarkably quick turnaround by Mr Engines Dunn.

Next week we've got a surveyor coming to do an insurance survey as it will be due while we are away, and a tonnage survey so we can get part 1 registration as our SSR registration is no longer suitable due to the length of time we will be out of the country. Guess the first job this weekend will be to have a tidy up then!