Spend, spend, spend.

Serafina
Rob & Sarah Bell
Thu 1 Oct 2009 19:50
Wednesday 30th Sept & Thursday 1st Oct

Visits from several of the people quoting to do jobs for us took place
today.

Moshe who does canvas work came for an extended detailed discussion which
was very helpful and somehow I ended up promising to take a look at his
website to see if could offer any advice!

Macik (pronounced Magic) came with a quote for the solar panels, but he was
no cheaper than anyone else in the end.

Demir marine produced their quote for the arch to carry the solar panels and
the modifications to the bimini which we accepted.

Finally Yalin from Moby sails arrived with a quote for the new lightweight
A1 genneker sail and furler, but the price rocked us a bit and so we have
modified the spec and he is having another go! They will also launder,
repair and store our sails this winter.

Thursday saw less interruptions and so we got a good many more jobs done.
Sarah is being heroic, doing her usual waxing and polishing job on the
entire boat externally and was positively beaming this evening when several
crews turned up to complement her on having what they felt must be the
cleanest and smartest boat in the entire boatyard (1500 boats!). She also
was talking to a Kiwi earlier and when she told him we had the Najad just
down the pontoon from him, he had replied "Oh, we all know the beautiful
Najad!" They know the way to her heart...

My day was broken by a meeting with Moshe about his website which ended
rather unexpectedly with him pretty much begging me to build him a brand new
site over the winter to promote all their new lines.

Heard from Souris Rose in the evening by email to say that they were going
to be anchoring off our marina on Friday lunchtime and suggesting we all go
out on Friday night. Saturday could be a struggle!