More Ups and Downs - Apr 2007

April 2007
More Ups and Downs

Next we moved up the Tamaki River to our pole mooring in front of the house so that we can remove from our adjacent boatshed the remaining gear required aboard.

Boatshed at bottom of garden, Pole mooring out front
Musketelle's homebase in NZ

At this inopportune time Musketelle's refrigeration system decided to die, which aboard a yacht is tantamount to disaster if you are filled with frozen supplies. Luckily we were able to find a temporary home for our supplies. We then had a thoroughly unpleasasnt experience where we chose the wrong "refrigeration engineer" when what should have been a simple 230v re-installation turned into a fiasco that necessitated us requiring the services of the engineer we should have selected in the first place to make remedial adjustments.

23 April
Cat 1 Day
No nothing to do with felines.  We have our NZ Yachting Federation Inspection to get the necessary "Category One" (Cat 1) certificate required for all NZ registered yachts sailing offshore. This certification requires that all safety gear is correctly installed and stowed and documentation is 100%. If not it can be a nightmare. With B in control of this task we flew through in 30 minutes with the inspector congratulating us on our presentaion and systems. A bloody good feeling which augers well for us...we think !!!

We are now legally certified to clear NZ shores, but are we ready ?