Approaching Tortola island, BVI (February 29, 2020) While hanging the fenders and attaching the mooring lines at the bow in preparation to enter Road Town, I noticed that my genoa had gotten some damage at…
Gibraltar with Wojtek and Andrzej
After two short hops with an overnight anchoring at Lagos Bay, we reached Gibraltar or rather its Spanish counterpart, La Línea de la Concepción. We docked at Alcaidesa Marina on November 1st, 2019. The stopover there was much needed as…
The Sad State of Things.
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Wine bar!
Nothing special to write about it, we just enjoy it!
New electronics
Just wired some addition to my nav electronics, from Furuno. Class B AIS (L) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Identification_System Weather Fax and Navtex (M) – Radiofax aka Weatherfax and Navtex Ethernat marine Hub (R) – to interconnect them to the laptop In the…
New upgrade.
I’ve spent this morning on upgrading my room engine fire suppression system. Out went old fire extinguishers with their supports. In their place I’ve put a brand new, US made Fireboy-Xintex, USCG certified automatic fire suppression system, rated to up…
In her element.
Finally the day came that I and my boat were both ready to go on water. Today at 10:15AM local time she was driven from her dry storage space to be lifted and then put afloat. It did not happen…
Getting ready to get on water.
I’ve scheduled to get ‘Jemm of the Sea’ put on water tomorrow at 10AM local time. Then I realized that I better get the Log and the Maintenance Record books initialized and ready for that event.
Great time tonight.
Such a nice and balmy weather tonight so we’re taking a stroll to our dinner destination.Since our marina ‘Josephine’ is closed on Sunday nights we have to dine out the ‘town’. We ate at ‘Le Pourquoi Pas’, which surprisingly is…