Treasures of the Bilge

Serafina
Rob & Sarah Bell
Tue 13 Oct 2009 11:09
Saturday & Sunday 10th & 11th October

Saturday morning saw a team from Demir arrive to start work on the bimini.
However as the changes started to be made, it soon became obvious that we
were making a mistake trying to alter what we have to be more robust. The
exercise of moving, lowering and strengthening the frame was going to result
in us having almost a cage around the cockpit which would be useless, so we
bit the bullet and told them to take the old one off and we would all put
our heads together and come up with a better, purpose built design. The
downside of this is that we now do not have a bimini at all so the sun beats
down on the cockpit which makes life a lot harder all round. And if/when it
rains, we will have no protection, but it will only be for a week or so now.
So Serafina is now looking even more denuded than before.


On Sunday we carted some of our 'treasures of the bilge' up to the lawn by
the bar where there was a boat jumble being held. Terry and Fiona had a
table and so we joined them and sold pretty much everything. Managed to stay
ahead financially despite Sarah buying a very nice looking hammock! She was
also very tempted by a Walker Bay dinghy which was going at a very good
price but in the end it was bought by David and Jill from Souris Rose. Terry
picked up a real bargain that had us green with envy. He bought a nearly new
Cobb BBQ, which are just brilliant things for a fraction of its value. Wish
we had seen it ourselves! Very social occasion with pretty much everyone
coming along at some stage. The boat jumble ended at 1.00pm and a BBQ
organised by the marina started immediately afterwards on the same site.
Very well attended and very nice food indeed, but not quite as generous
portions as last time.

Returned to Serafina in time to welcome Chris and Steve on 'Scott Free' back
into the marina. We last saw them in May, up in Ayvelik and before that, on
the Rally Portugal. Their plans for next year are almost identical to ours,
so hopefully we will be seeing a lot more of them.