Leaving behind the job and the whole ratrace sounded so nice, but we’ve been working 12 to 15 hours daily on the boat since we arrived here and a day off would be really nice now. Otherwise we’ll manage to get a burn out syndrom without having a job After struggling with Croatian bureau-crazy we’ve finally got all equipment on the boat and hopefully we’ll… Continue reading »
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2011
10
Jun
2011
05
Jun
Getting ready to set sail
We’re still in Pula, working on several projects on the boat simultaneously, but the big jobs like painting the deck and installing the watermaker are done. The chaos is slowly turning into organisation and it looks like we’ll be off soon!
2011
27
May
Moved in
Finally we’ve moved in our new home Pitufa. We have emptied our flat in Austria (hell of a task), but dozens of jobs remain on the boat. anyway, now we’ve got time to do them
2011
01
May
Building site
Only 3 weeks to go until we move to our new swimming home, but Pitufa still resembles a building site. We’ve worked our way with angle grinders half across the deck (the layers of paint, filler and primer seem to be an extra resistant material, probably developed by NASA in order to annoy us…), but the painting will have to wait until later… Christian has… Continue reading »
2011
05
Apr
Shopping Tour
The last couple of weeks we’ve been busy ordering all sorts of boat equipment: water maker, sails, life raft, mast steps and thousands of little but important items. There is so much to think of… While loading our boat with tons of needful things, we are throwing off ballast like memberships, insurances, standing orders, furniture, etc. It’s such a relief! Less than two months to… Continue reading »
2011
31
Jan
Gale Probability KMZ File
Pilot charts are certainly of great help for planning ocean routes and fortunately, the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency makes their Atlas of Pilot Charts available for free (get it here. you may find their server somewhat slow and rather try it here). I’ve recently generated kml/kmz files that show the prevailing ocean winds (get more info here). Viewing them with Google Maps (as in our… Continue reading »