Repair update June 7th

At last all repairs relating to the lightning strike have been completed J   We had the back stay with the HF insulators on replaced on the recommendation of “Ronstan” and tested the SSB radio, the Iridium 9555 Sat phone was the last item to be fitted due to a shortage in supply.  We now need to take her sailing to ensure everything works for an extended period and for us to learn how it all works. There are some pictures in Picasa of the new look instruments.

One of the reasons for the long delay, we were told, was that on the night of January 4^th 2012 just over 100 boats suffered damage from that same storm here in Perth and with limited tradesmen to carry out repairs, things dragged on and on...

Unfortunately we still have the yard people making good on the rust staining they did to our deck. As we are not on the hard stand we are ‘out of sight out of mind’ again and it is a weekly battle reminding them to fix it!!

A swam of nesting flies have made the outboard home for now, we have a flock of Welcome Swallows in a feeding frenzy every morning filling their bellies with the things. We kill thousands with fly spray each evening, but next day there are more, will we ever win????

Mike.