Hey, you could have stopped off and helped but I expect that gin and tonic was getting warm!!.Great fun today, boat lifted at 12, bum washed, changed a dodgy 3/4 sea-cock whilst held in slings, relaunched and out in the lagoon by 3 for a quick sea-trial and all went perfectly well.
I did slip past Jenny Wren (Hurricane) whilst on the boatyard quayside, but Mike was busy stripping his Teak decking off his flybridge, so best not disturb him.....!
Weather has been great past few days, bit dull today, but great to be back on the water again....!
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Told you not to go, it’s lovely back here☀☀☀Just for anyone who might be interested, this was the progress as at last night.
A Princess without seats and some of the floor is missing.
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More progress today - nearly finished the teak removal but rain (and hail) have stopped play.
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Hey, you could have stopped off and helped but I expect that gin and tonic was getting warm!!.
Actually, we are making quite good progress. Most of the old teak is now stripped off. Hopefully be back on the home berth tomorrow. Just SWMBO and I doing it so it is very rewarding to see this stage done.
Is that the Calanques area?
No it was a little more north of the Calanques (a bit more inland?)]
Is that the Calanques area?
Spectacular! Over a decade since were were there.
Ah well!
Maybe soon the way things are going
I’ve seen them scull with about four rowers, there are pedalos and little electric boats. A jet boat would probably work but I don’t know if there is a speed limit. There might be a internal combustion engine ban, there often is on the rivers and lakes controlled by EDF. Where we were isn’t the main gorge, that starts from the big Lac St Croix. The gorge itself is spectacular, even the road trip is incredible, especially when all of the road is open. It’s so high you look down on the soaring eagles. I once saw a large helicopter fly into the gorge, it was like a bee in a bottle. I think it might be second to the Grand Canyon.That looks amazing, we used to visit gorge du Verdon a fair bit, what’s the maximum size boat you could get up there ?
Ah yes
I don’t think it’s that far (but am happy to be corrected). While it’s all interconnected, there are two lakes in between where I started and the big lake. But it’s all been dammed and tamed, so not all navigable. Reading the history of the early attempts at conquering the gorge, before the dams is very interesting. It was surprisingly late in history before anybody got through it. It was an incredibly wild riverAh yes
I‘m about 100km out
I don’t know that part of France at all, looks amazing.
I thought you had replaced everything last year or did you leave the Fly in the teak and so completing? Or are you replacing some of what you did last year?Hey, you could have stopped off and helped but I expect that gin and tonic was getting warm!!.
Actually, we are making quite good progress. Most of the old teak is now stripped off. Hopefully be back on the home berth tomorrow. Just SWMBO and I doing it so it is very rewarding to see this stage done.