We finally made it off the dock! It’s been a long time coming, so we were pretty excited to get out for our first test-sail on Toucan last week.

Continue reading “Good News, Bad News”

I think Elephantitis is what happens when you overdose on a pachyderm.  To say we’re a little tired would be an understatement, but the good news is that after a couple of huge weeks we finally feel like we’re making progress! Continue reading “Elephantitis”

By now you’re all probably sick and tired of hearing about the progress (or lack of) with the boat jobs, so I thought I’d try and stick my head out of the boat and paint a picture of what life’s like in our little neighbourhood of Spa Creek.

Continue reading “The ‘Hood”

 

We have to keep reminding ourselves of this advice as we nibble our way through what’s turned out to be a monster project. Especially as we seem to have taken on an elephant that likes to waltz. For every step forward we seem to take one back and a couple sideways. Continue reading “How To Eat An Elephant”

I remember someone quoting that little phrase to me sometime ago. Now maybe I’m a slow learner as it has just struck home, so as to speak. When we were close to leaving Oz for the ‘prepare the new boat for the trip back’ but, has turned into ‘let’s rebuild a catamaran in aound 5 months’ we had the “how do we communicate our experiences with everyone and share our photos” discussion. On our last foray into the blue we used Sailblogs to entertain people and host our photos so this seemed the logical course to continue on and this is where I should have remembered that important phrase. But no, it wasn’t broke and I did try to fix it! Continue reading “Happy Wife Happy Life”

The moral of this tale is never ever assume anything. Ever. (I thought we’d already learnt this lesson, but obviously not well enough). Continue reading “Chain of Fools”