1 June 2012
This week we've been working long hours on getting the boat ready. George is coming out with friends this month and before then we want a short break in Corfu. In May we started working at Nisos on the charter-yacht turnaround - long hours on Sundays, and the band has been playing on Fridays or Saturdays at the bar. I did my debut stint behind the bar last Friday, which was fun.
Then a friend wanted help with stepping and refitting a mast, so Dave and I lost another three days on that operation. I was helping by hanging onto various ropes, but each time a man saw me involved he came over and took my rope away - an act of chivalry, or distrust? Anyway, it freed me up to take photos.
But the toerail on the poor old boat has finally been fitted, which allowed us to get on with the structural repairs necessary: we did three 10 hour days this week getting the boat lifted by the yard to re-insert the rudder and fix up the steering gear, refitting steelwork and fairleads, engine maintenance, and taking out the big saloon windows.
The windows came out very easily. They'd been leaking badly anyway, as there was no sealant left behind them. But the plexiglass - which we'd had for over a year for when we got round to this job - was the wrong size. So instead of being able to stick to our schedule, we had to belt into Lefkas town to try to get the right size. They agreed to cut them, as soon as someone was free, so we found ourselves at a loose end in Lefkas town for a couple of hours.
We ran into Constantine, actually, he was riding his huge motorbike up the pedestrian walkway and we had to jump out of the way, but we stopped and talked, creating a mini traffic hazard, and he said out of the blue that he expected to be at the land tomorrow June 1st with the concrete.
We got back to the chandlers and found that we'd have to wait another hour for the cut window panels, so we decided to go back and get on and pick the panels up tomorrow.
As we returned, we called in at IGR chandlers for some keel primer, and the car subsided with a gasp and started leaking rusty cooling fluid into the gutter. Dave said he'd have to look at it tomorrow. Meanwhile, Vaia lent us her car to go for the van, saving us a long hot walk to Vlicho boatyard.
So today we have to be in three places at once, oh, and the band are setting up at 2 pm, so that's four places for Dave. What larks ...
This week we've been working long hours on getting the boat ready. George is coming out with friends this month and before then we want a short break in Corfu. In May we started working at Nisos on the charter-yacht turnaround - long hours on Sundays, and the band has been playing on Fridays or Saturdays at the bar. I did my debut stint behind the bar last Friday, which was fun.
Then a friend wanted help with stepping and refitting a mast, so Dave and I lost another three days on that operation. I was helping by hanging onto various ropes, but each time a man saw me involved he came over and took my rope away - an act of chivalry, or distrust? Anyway, it freed me up to take photos.
But the toerail on the poor old boat has finally been fitted, which allowed us to get on with the structural repairs necessary: we did three 10 hour days this week getting the boat lifted by the yard to re-insert the rudder and fix up the steering gear, refitting steelwork and fairleads, engine maintenance, and taking out the big saloon windows.
The windows came out very easily. They'd been leaking badly anyway, as there was no sealant left behind them. But the plexiglass - which we'd had for over a year for when we got round to this job - was the wrong size. So instead of being able to stick to our schedule, we had to belt into Lefkas town to try to get the right size. They agreed to cut them, as soon as someone was free, so we found ourselves at a loose end in Lefkas town for a couple of hours.
We ran into Constantine, actually, he was riding his huge motorbike up the pedestrian walkway and we had to jump out of the way, but we stopped and talked, creating a mini traffic hazard, and he said out of the blue that he expected to be at the land tomorrow June 1st with the concrete.
We got back to the chandlers and found that we'd have to wait another hour for the cut window panels, so we decided to go back and get on and pick the panels up tomorrow.
As we returned, we called in at IGR chandlers for some keel primer, and the car subsided with a gasp and started leaking rusty cooling fluid into the gutter. Dave said he'd have to look at it tomorrow. Meanwhile, Vaia lent us her car to go for the van, saving us a long hot walk to Vlicho boatyard.
So today we have to be in three places at once, oh, and the band are setting up at 2 pm, so that's four places for Dave. What larks ...
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