Several repairs have been done that involve the hull integrity. New glands on the rudder and a new fish finder /depth gauge. So we will need to double-check that they don’t leak.
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Sunday was a very nice day. In the morning I attended a car and coffee gathering of the Dutch Jaguar Daimler Club. Very pleasant, see my fiddling with cars thread. It was only about 20 minutes from Marina Strand Horst where my Sirion was still inside the big hall, waiting to be launched.
I had a chat with Andre, the broker and harbour master. The plan is to launch Sirion this coming Tuesday. At last, fingers crossed that all goes well. Several repairs have been done that involve the hull integrity. New glands on the rudder and a new fish finder /depth gauge. So we will need to double-check that they don’t leak.
I had loaded up the Jaguar with lots of stuff. This boat is kitted out well. But we wanted to bring some of our stuff and some was just too old.
I brought about four of these piles.
I went through the various drawers again. Ad, the previous owner, had left a lot of charts and nautical books. In the end, I decided to bin most of them. Especially charts, almanaks, and tide tables lose their relevance a few years after publishing, if not faster.
Here you see me checking for the first time how the main sofa extends to become another double bunk. I also discovered more storage space behind it. Always useful.
The drawer under the sofa has now become my documentation and chart storage facility. Well, I don’t have the charts yet. Neither the Almanacs. They tend to publish new editions at the start of the season so I am holding out buying them.
I did manage to get a copy of the new Almanak part 1. This details all the formal rules and regulations oddddn all inner waterways in the Netherlands. Legally you are obliged to have an up-to-date copy onboard.
Ad had installed a TV. It was a special subscription service offered by Duth PTT or KPN as they are known these days. Not sure that service is still offered though.
Irrespective, we don’t need a TV. If anything we have iPads and iPhones and we can stream just about anything if we want to. So I ripped it all out. Lots of cables, chargers, and so on.
Ready to be binned!
I also cleaned out the various lockers inside the open rear cockpit. I had done an inventory last time. The ad had similar stuff all over the place. So I sorted it properly and binned everything that was not useful, overdated, and so on.
Now we have all the cleaning materials in one locker.
And all engine-related stuff, spares, fluids, and so on in another.
I took two of these loads to the bins at the marina. Luckily they collect the old liquids (oil, petrol, thinner, etc), but also the paper charts and the electronics.
Saved me from taking it all back home and disposing of it all.
New floor mat and toilet brush in the head!!
This is Mrs D’s piece de resistance. I just arrived this evening. Four champagne glasses! Plastic champagne glasses at that. This is a boat and we don’t do glass. Not sure why it says “useful every day?”
Mind you, our wedding, 41 years ago, at the Bridgetown, Barbados Yacht Club was an “only champagne affair. Luckily my father-in-law was paying. So I was not complaining. My wife had told him, she wanted only champagne at her wedding.
Andre also helped me with a few things. He also helped me to come to terms with the wastewater disposal/holding tank system. I had trouble figuring it out, so Andre managed to explain it all to me.
If all goes well, I will be doing a few little test sails later this week!! Can’t wait, fingers crossed!!
Jeroen
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