And... we're back in Portugal after a 34hr trip back from Australia, and a morning travelling back from the UK. Our last week in Adelaide was fantastic, with plenty more catch ups, a couple of BBQ's and generally seeing Nathan's family. Our weekend in the UK was spent watching the rugby and a dinner or two.
Anyway, we arrived back in Portugal and were greeted by our freshly arrived parts - mast pieces, a boom, sails, folding props - the list goes on. The mast transporter hadn't done a [.....]
Well, we're wrapping up our visit back to Adelaide and planning the next steps for our return to Portugal and Blue Calypso.
We spent last week visiting the Hills, picking strawberries, sampling the local chocolate factory, and then a weekend of birthday celebrations for Nathan's dad. That was the whole reason for us parking up the boat for 6 weeks and heading back to Australia, and it was great to get everyone in the same place at the same time.
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Our good chums over on Irreversible have uploaded another vid of their time cruising the UK south coast, including a visit from the good folks on Blue Calypso.
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G'day folks!
Well what can I say..... being back in Australia is a bit of alright. Warm sunny days, doing the whole tourist thing and not having to think about organising parts for the boat.
Adelaide's experiencing some early summer weather so between visiting the beach and the hills, we'll be spending the next week cutting another video of our time back here before we head back north to get that new mast fitted. [.....]
G'day from Down Under.
Picking up where we last left off, I had to do a second 400 mile round trip to collect our sails. We'd purchased three sails from a south coast based UK sailmaker and organised to have them ready for the 25th. We paid in advance, double checked the work that needed to be done to them (sliders, UV strips, etc) and re-confirmed everything would be ready for collection. Rocked up on the day to find the sails bagged up and ready to go. [.....]
Just a couple of days left here in the UK and we're almost done sorting out this mast project. We did a tour of the south coast last week to round up all our bits - winches, base pads, u-bolts, sta-lok fittings, longer halyards, etc etc - loaded up the car, and dropped them off at the mast supplier.
I need to head back down to see the sailmaker on Tuesday as our sails weren't ready last week, but that's a story for another blog [.....]
While we settle in for an early night before our early morning dawn raid on the sailmakers and mast supplier, spare a thought for those folks in George Town, Bahamas - easily one of my favourite cruising destinations. Hurricane Joaquin is pummelling them at the moment and this is the forecast they have to look forward to tomorrow. Hang in there guys.
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