And so it continues

Work and improvements continue aboard Namaste, and sailing is enjoyed as often as possible.
Over Easter Mike and I utilised one of the clubs free moorings on Garden Island, which was lovely.  As is out tradition, Maria and John aboard Siricco joined us. Always fun with those two!
We now have a working wind instrument, new clears, new boom bag, new Bimini with the next major expenditure being new batteries, followed by new mainsail and finally new rigging.

Finally

Goosewinging back to HYC after Easter at Rockingham!

Watching weeds grow on the waterline

Ok so perhaps I was a tad ambitious- still in the pen, still being reconstructed (me, not the boat!) but living vicariously through a couple of blogs I'm reading in a daily basis  http://www.jonsanders.com.au/

and

https://lisablairsailstheworld.com/blog/

As for us - no, we haven't given sailing away, yes, we do have 

another adventure in mind and yes, it's very boring being so stationary!

C'est La Vie

Unfortunately we haven't managed to move from the pen since February. I was diagnosed with early breast cancer just before Christmas and underwent a bi lateral mastectomy in late February. Since then I have been recovering and going through a series of operations to reconstruct. 

One more op in 12 weeks and I'll be all done so hopefully next sailing season will prove to be better than the last one!

New solar etc

So treating the Rockingham cruise as a bit of a shakedown, it became apparent that we did not have enough power whilst away from shore power. 

We are now back at HYC and the very technically brilliant Mike has fitted two more solar panels, we now boast half a kilowatt in total! What's really clever us that he has hinged them so that we can take advantage of the morning sun and evening sun too. Clever, these old Greenwich boys.

Away for a few days!

Finally escaped from the "lets fix that today/lets go get this for the boat etc, etc, etc" and we are, as I write heading down for a few days in Rockingham/Garden Island to see in the New Year. Believe me, it feels wonderful to be out on the water again, and what a speedy little baby she is too - 6.5 knots in 9 knots of wind on the beam.  Awesome!

A new stove

Happy happy joy unbounded: a new Force 10 to replace the old Eno! Finally after a couple of stoves from hell!

Other work completed: all new thru hulls, new sanitation hoses, AIS fitted, chart plotter fitted at helm, electrical compliance sorted, new inverter, new batteries.....not to mention a fully fitted out laundry room! And people wonder what we do all day !