This Sunday morning we’ve got some damage from this heavy Mistral. The whole finger pontoon has broken off, together with this boat moored to it. We had to secure it for the time being so the boat would not get…
Mistral
A nasty Mistral started to blow down the Rhone valley two days ago. It is steady at 8 with burst at 9 on Beaufort scale. It’s being predicted to last for another 8-10 days. Port Napoleon marina is not very much…
Liveaboard got started.
Last night, after returning from out great Christmas trip to Warsaw (thanks to my sis and my Mom!) we finally moved aboard of our boat.Above: Approaching Marseille Provence Airport. This was a very happy moment for us that needed a…
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.
Would you name your boat this?
Whenever we’re walking around Port Napoleon marina and pass by one of those boats here I’m having this thought that nobody should name his or her boat names like that:
The boat is official.
I’ve just received the official registration papers, so called ‘Blue Book’, together with the VHF radio license.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends, for whom we are so eternally thankful. We’ve tried to celebrate it here, in France, but there was no ‘la dinde’ on the menu, so we’ve just ordered a few extra pours of…
Leaky faucet.
After fixing a leaky deadlight now I’ve discovered a leaky faucet in the galley. After fruitless efforts to seal it by replacing seals and o-rings I had to decide to swap it for a new one. That called for pulling…
Fixed that deadlight!
The last couple of days I was getting Amazon.fr packages with my boat supplies and equipments. Once I’ve got my tool box I was able to get going with fixing this leaky deadlight. So this morning I removed it to…
And up the mast again.
And finally, on this chilly and crisp morning I was able to fix that damned steaming light. Due to the fact that all those wires and connecters are very tightly packed inside the light housing, one of the connectors was…