Haven? or Hades?

Haven? or Hades?

T minus 8.  A week tomorrow and we will be liveaboards! Our 12 month adventure will have properly begun.  It feels strange to think that next Sunday night will be the last we sleep in our lovely house for a while. The bed, I have to say,…

We ain’t going anywhere!

We ain’t going anywhere!

We’re staying another month.  We talked about it last night and the outstanding repairs can’t really be done at anchor.  It’s not like they’re optional works either; the boat needs to get this stuff done to be safe to sail, so we don’t really have…

Ships and sailors rot in port

Ships and sailors rot in port

We’ve had a rotten week.  Despite vowing to view this extra month in the marina as a holiday, we’ve all feel feeling stuck and cranky. Our lifting day got moved back every day until another whole week had passed and we’re still not in the…

Hard at it

Hard at it

We finally got lifted onto the hard on Friday afternoon.  This is something we’ve been waiting for since the beginning of July (read more here) so we were delighted we finally got a slot. Iron Will has a vey long (and substantial keel) and there was…