Saturday, December 26, 2015

Christmas in Nazare

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Well, with the festive season rolling around again all the cruisers in Nazare got together for a Christmas Eve dinner in one of the surfer's storage lock-ups. Dirk's done a great job of turning the area into a place where surfers can hang out, and it made for an excellent setting for great food and plenty of mulled wine.

Christmas morning started with bacon and eggs aboard (plus an awesome Christmas cake slow cooked by Lauren) followed by a pretty leisurely day. Australia is 10.5hrs ahead [.....]

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Thursday, December 24, 2015

Merry Christmas!

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Saturday, December 19, 2015

Ply, paint and pontoons.

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Another week passes by with more progress. We've had some fairly strong winds recently which have prevented any chance of test sailing, so instead we've been cracking on with a few other jobs around the boat. One of them was to move our sailing instruments outside - they used to be in the wheelhouse back in the day but now we've fitted the aft cockpit it makes sense to have our chartplotter, autopilot, wind and depth readings all displayed out there. That meant I got cracking again with [.....]

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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Update...

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So I know it's been a week since our last update, but there's been good reason for that - finally, finally, finally, both our masts are back up and ready to go (other than a quick tune).

After spending three days rewiring the mizzen (aft) mast, we motored around to the concrete dock to start the mast raising process.

First we had to setup the boat nice & tight so it didn't move while we were placing the mast....


Then the mast [.....]

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Thursday, December 03, 2015

And some photos...

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Here's some photos of what's been going on around here this past week.

Alec welded up our new winch bases.

Joao then spent some time at the top of the mast, fitting a new backstay toggle.

With the weather hovering around 22C, washing day inevitably came about.

And then there was the obligatory BBQ and photogenic sunset.


Just another week in Nazare really.... [.....]

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Wednesday, December 02, 2015

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Just a brief update today as there's been nothing for the past week and a half, Nathan continues to work on the extended cockpit seating, the new winch bases have been welded on (and the roof lining subsequently re-fitted in the aft cabin), and the new mast should have it's last piece of rigging fitted today. We've been waiting on the parts for it to come from the UK for the past two weeks (hence not a lot has been going on) but now with a calm day and plenty of sun, we've perfect conditions to get everything finished off.

Nazare continues to be low 20's (C), the northerlies have blown themselves out, and a few new [.....]

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