First breakage!

Just spent a morning in the yard doing various work on the hull - including fitting the stanchions and lifelines. It was good fun actually having something practical to do rather than all the “theoretical” part of the project while specifying the boat, electics and electronics.

The Spanish yard have kindly marked up the fittings so I know what goes where - however its still very much a large jigsaw - and to add to the fun - the handwritten labels were all in Spanish! As I spotted this yesterday this morning I turned up prepared with my sailing dictionary, so quickly worked out which was bow, stern, port and starboard!

I had hoped to start sailing before I broke anything - however today I managed to create my first unplanned work item by breaking the cockpit step. Its a simple piece of marine ply that is removable - so nothing serious. Better broken now than later, I guess.

The TV news tonight is full of a report on a piracy attack on a cruise liner off Somalia - and how the cruise ship fought back with a big bang. (No idea what this was actually). This whole story reminds me of the 4 week 2 handed delivery I did through that area of the world in 2003 - which included an episode with pirates off the Somalian coast. (I don’t plan to go anywhere near to Somalia with my mini - unless anyone is wondering!)