9th April 2007 - Kemer - Sues Birthday
Posted at 3:58 PM, Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Well we've arrived safe and sound - and to our relief, the boat looked fine.
Sure we had a few issues like blown fuses, a leak close to the mast giving us a bilge full of water plus some red mud marks on some inner surfaces, and the clothes and soft furnishings smelled pretty musty - but thats what you get leaving a boat to look after herself for 6 months.
Weathers great - 20 degrees - but wierd watching the skiiers come down the slopes of the resort we can see from the jetty - and I'm in shorts and T shirt! But good to air the legs and start getting them bronzed again - we'll expose the broader wider white bits when there are less people around.
Talking of mountains - we've a mountain of work to do on Swagman before we fly back to the UK month end for a family wedding, but provided the Kemer Technical Team keep to thier undertakings we should be able to get away to Greece on our return second week May.
The new genoa has arrived here, but we'll not try that out until we've lifted the yacht and sorted out the keel issues. They can't lift until Saturday next, so imagine we'll be back in the water and able to trial the sail perhaps a week later.
Have electricians and canvas workers arriving tomorrow to start of radio installation and allow us to put our biminin and mainsail stack pack back up. The canvas kit got torn in the autumn rainstorms and we'd handed them in last October to get repaired.
We've also been told the new dinghy is also en-route from Istambul. It is a rigid floor / folding transom Bombard AX500 - slightly smaller than the existing Zodiac but essentially same materials and should be faster!! Also today luckily jagged a buyer for the Zodiac via the Cruising World site - someone based out of Fineke only 40 miles away - so we'll not have to sort out shipping that back to the UK - all good news.
Celebrated Sues birthday in the evening after she'd opened her cards.
She will kill me dead when she sees I put this snap onthe site!!
The marina restaurant (Navigator) kindly laid on a cake and candles and we were joined by most livaboards for a happy hour drink before having a catch up and meal with Amy and Bob from Scalliwag, one of last years EMYR boats.
So thats the update - in summary - great to be back on the boat! Lots to do, but it won't take long and we'll be sailing free!!!
Cheers
JOHN
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