A day of preperation as the sun comes out with still a shower or two
Sowell Family's Travels on Gijima
Skipper: Tim Sowell Admiral Tracy Crew Sean & Alex
Wed 17 Nov 2010 03:22
But we a certainly entering the transition between wet / wet season to no so wet season.
I spent most of the day completing paper work and scanning it for customers and importation of Gijima to Australia, I think we are only one document away from having everything with the agent and they are preprocessing. I have also started looking at marinas in Brisbane area as I have a months work to be done, some has to be done up there and Tracy wants to look around Brisbane a little and get to know it, so we looking at some nice marinas, before we take the boat back down to Yamba for 3 to 4 months.
While we still have 3 more small trips here certainly our minds have switched to thinking USA for Xmas and then Australia and getting things ready, for me this means also starting to engage with people about work. Since we moving to a cruising life style that will not mean long distances but cruising areas and getting to know them well for the next 5 years I may as well work as we will have two bases and use them to go out on the boat for a couple of weeks, or long weekends. (will discuss cruising life style options latter blog).
Wahalie with Maggie and Bill came in late yesterday after taking it slower than us, but as Bill said last week was not a good week by cruising standards he has already done this coast and up the other side, he was happy to hit the calm water. But today he ran into issues, he came in with a transmission problem of having trouble getting into forward, so we found a mechanic to pull it appear and rebuild the transmission. But he went to check in and customers stopped him due to not having original papers, so now we working through that. Sitting at happy hour Bill was exhausted and needing a drink.
Off our bow I can see a whole lot go lights it is ship that has come in with many boats on it, similar to the one we will use in 3 weeks, I am helping the dock master take a sail boat down and load up tomorrow morning at 6 am, it will allow me to understand what is involved.
Then we are going up into Panamas high country for a 3 days, to give the boys some in land travel, we will visit coffee farms and production and be high in the mountains and volcanoes.
Will try to do a blog but depends on internet cafe's.
Stay tuned.