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…
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…
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…
Up the mast.
I spent this morning trying to fix the broken ‘steaming light’. Climbed the main mast up to the spreaders where the light is located and remove its bulb. Climbed down, checked the bulb. It worked fine so I climbed up…
Most of the systems are go.
I’ve been working on my boat every day since we came here. So far I was able to go through and check the following systems: Shore power – go Charger – go Inverter – go (However for some strange reason…
Crisp morning
Finally a morning here at our marina without any rain. I was able to get out and run. Not much though, only 2 miles. I’ve just come back and enjoyed a view from our apartment window. And now it’s time…
Feel blessed…
After paying €1.249 for a liter of diesel (Yes, that $5.90/gal.!) and after seeing this at our marina laundry room: Yes, that’s €10 for a ‘bigger’ and €6 for regular washer use; that would be almost $13 and $10 respectively!.…
Dinner at Restaurant ‘Josephine’.
My wife and I are having our first dinner at the marina’s restaurant called ‘Josephine’.It’s quiet and very cosy. Lot’s of charm and family like feel. Good food, too. A 1/2 liter of rose tonight with our dinner!