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Ready to go, but only mentally…

Mr Finn intended to do lots of things on the boat today…but not this!

It seems that we’ll soon be working overtime to get the boat ready. That is probably not a surprise to anyone who has ever prepared for an ocean voyage, but it is frustrating nevertheless.

In addition to figuring out the contents of our grab bag (for the non-sailors out there, this means the emergency bag that we would take with us if we had to evacuate to the liferaft), I have been designing our boat stamp and boat cards, so less of an unpleasant job for me.

Mentally, we are all so ready to go…

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The action list grows

We received our new liferaft today. We had sent the supplier photos of the cradle for our old raft  (of the same brand) and they had confirmed that it would work with the new raft as well. Accordingly, we didn’t order a new cradle. Surprise surprise, the new raft is larger after all, and the cradle is an annoying 2,5 cm too narrow. One step forward, one step back…this seems to be the golden rule for anything boat related (actually, it is normally more like “one step forward, two steps back”).

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Boatschooling has started

Big Sis and Lil Sis are hard at work with their boatschool lessons, having had the last day at their “formal” school a week ago. Somehow their boatschool schedule has resulted in longer school days than before, probably because we are cramming in a lot of extra subjects. There is no separate homework though! Let’s see how the schedule will develop once we get on our way…

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We are online!

In order to keep family and friends up-to-date, we will be sharing our sailing journey here as it unfolds. We are currently really busy getting our sailboat ready, so please bear with us if we are at first a little slow to update this site.