Our wonderful Roger and Dinah!Well... it didn't start off that way this morning, there was plenty of that beautiful blue sky about, but this afternoon a good solid squall came in. And now tonight, it's rained again, it's windy and it's only 9 degrees outside.
Today we did well in ticking off a few more items on the list. Thanks again to the wonderful Dinah, who collected us in her car drove us to West Marine and sorted out the mess that was our EPIRB and Liferaft order. Then on top of it, thanks to her were sure...we got a brand new (floor stock) inflatable dinghy for only $650!! It's similar to the one we bought off West Marine all those years ago in Florida, but the next model up with the solid floor panels. Which means it will be more stable, for she of the wonky knees to step into.
Geoff also achieved taking a foot off the spinnaker pole and attaching a new end piece with his trusty rivet gun. It is now the perfect measurement as per the Jeanneau manual for our boat. Now we just need less wind to haul up our new second hand spinnaker to see how it all fits.
I tried to register the EPIRB after we collected it, but we found some confusion as to who we register it with? It says in the manual you should register it with country you purchased it in as it is programmed to that countries code for rescue services. However, it also says that you need to have the unit registered with the country your vessel is registered in?! Doh! I think that means that we have to get it reprogrammed for Australia's code....and that means we have to find out who does that???? Nothing is easy!
Okay the Liferaft was easy, we bought one in a valise (soft sided pack) compared with the canister type we have previously owned, that requires fixing onto the deck with brackets. Which we didn't want to do. This one sits perfectly inside the starboard side cockpit locker, handy in case of that horrible moment where one decides to abandon ship.
The dinghy we will collect next week and it should fit into the port side cockpit locker which believe it or not....is about 5' deep and about 6' long. I could sleep down there!!! Once we get the dinghy we can test the outboard and see if it still works after not a lot of use?
Finally, we went off to our fave Chinese restaurant with Dinah tonight, Roger is in Florida visiting grandchildren. So we wanted to keep Dinah company... it was an early dinner of crumbed prawns, garlic, salt & pepper prawns, egg rolls, spicy chicken fried rice and broccoli in oyster sauce...all that for only $26 for all three of us! Then just to totally stuff us, we went to 'Fosters Freeze' for a choc top ice cream for dessert.....ugh maybe that was too much :/ Now we are tucked up in our cozy little cabin, with the heater on - 20 degrees inside - 8 degrees outside now, listening to the wind in the rigging and rain on the decks, TV's on Doctor Phil and or Cops (Geoff has the remote)
Think I may finish up and go scoot along the saloon bunk and snuggle into Geoff ;))))))))
Today we did well in ticking off a few more items on the list. Thanks again to the wonderful Dinah, who collected us in her car drove us to West Marine and sorted out the mess that was our EPIRB and Liferaft order. Then on top of it, thanks to her were sure...we got a brand new (floor stock) inflatable dinghy for only $650!! It's similar to the one we bought off West Marine all those years ago in Florida, but the next model up with the solid floor panels. Which means it will be more stable, for she of the wonky knees to step into.
Geoff also achieved taking a foot off the spinnaker pole and attaching a new end piece with his trusty rivet gun. It is now the perfect measurement as per the Jeanneau manual for our boat. Now we just need less wind to haul up our new second hand spinnaker to see how it all fits.
I tried to register the EPIRB after we collected it, but we found some confusion as to who we register it with? It says in the manual you should register it with country you purchased it in as it is programmed to that countries code for rescue services. However, it also says that you need to have the unit registered with the country your vessel is registered in?! Doh! I think that means that we have to get it reprogrammed for Australia's code....and that means we have to find out who does that???? Nothing is easy!
Okay the Liferaft was easy, we bought one in a valise (soft sided pack) compared with the canister type we have previously owned, that requires fixing onto the deck with brackets. Which we didn't want to do. This one sits perfectly inside the starboard side cockpit locker, handy in case of that horrible moment where one decides to abandon ship.
The dinghy we will collect next week and it should fit into the port side cockpit locker which believe it or not....is about 5' deep and about 6' long. I could sleep down there!!! Once we get the dinghy we can test the outboard and see if it still works after not a lot of use?
Finally, we went off to our fave Chinese restaurant with Dinah tonight, Roger is in Florida visiting grandchildren. So we wanted to keep Dinah company... it was an early dinner of crumbed prawns, garlic, salt & pepper prawns, egg rolls, spicy chicken fried rice and broccoli in oyster sauce...all that for only $26 for all three of us! Then just to totally stuff us, we went to 'Fosters Freeze' for a choc top ice cream for dessert.....ugh maybe that was too much :/ Now we are tucked up in our cozy little cabin, with the heater on - 20 degrees inside - 8 degrees outside now, listening to the wind in the rigging and rain on the decks, TV's on Doctor Phil and or Cops (Geoff has the remote)
Think I may finish up and go scoot along the saloon bunk and snuggle into Geoff ;))))))))
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