Light winds and even some rain!!!

 

Rain in Walvis bay is a strange occurrence. Whilst there has been plenty inland at the moment it usually doesn't make it down here. Well it rained last night but today you wouldn't know it. The dry, thirsty ground rapidly sucked it all up.
The winds are light so we are carrying on with our preperations for the days to come. Little details are being addressed. We went to put the new batteries in the GPS yesterday and when we turned it on it still had the readings from the last run displayed.

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Ah, the joy of seeing those numbers for the first time. But that was then and this is now... so out with the old and in with the new!

Hopefully in the next few days.

A second 20' container has been ordered which will be put alongside the current one. We will set it up for boat building projects as everything has to be constantly re-arranged in the current container everytime we need to laminate. You couldn't ask for a better spot than the Walvis bay Yacht Club to run a project like this. They have been very generous in their support of us as we do take up a bit of space. Being right next to Namibias main shipping port... and I mean right next to it... hang on, I'll take a picture from where I am sitting now

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You can see the stacks of containers just across the carpark... and our new vice... and the string of Mumm champagne corks hanging on the wall that represent the first sail and then every 10 knot increase in speed that followed. The cork which Lady Caroline launched Sailrocket with back in April 2004 is fitted in the handgrip of the skeg steering system on the boat.

Where was I? Oh yes, being this close to the shipping port has its advantages. A 20' container will be delivered to our door for the grand total of... ten pounds... inc VAT!!!

Happy Days.

Cheers, Paul.
Cheers, Paul.

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