Three steps forward and two steps back

Serafina
Rob & Sarah Bell
Sun 25 Apr 2010 18:45
21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25th April

Blimey, not too sure where all the days have gone since we last posted a report.

The days have been a bit of a blur with endless visits from Demir staff as they have to make changes to the solar arch, mainly because they had not allowed sufficient space for the wires that we need to thread through the structure to connect up the panels and wind turbine.
Moshe and Claudia came to fit the sunscreens to the windscreen which look great, but during the installation two screws broke off and have necessitated a further visit from the gel coat repair expert. Sarah studied his every move so that in future hopefully she can do the repairs.
Wednesday saw clouds followed by thunder and quite a bit of real rain which was not in the brochure .
Sarah went food shopping in Marmaris on Thursday which is market day and having taken the free ferry into town and the dolmus back out to the marina, she pretty much took the rest of the day off suffering from the dreaded lurgy, which might well be related to overdoing things for the past week or so.
On Saturday I went into town to get a load of electrical bits and pieces for our new panels etc. and had great success at the small electrical shop that I found at the end of last season. Nothing was too much trouble and the owner went out of his way to solve all our issues, most of which he refused to charge for.
Saturday night was the Welcome to the Summer Party hosted by the marina and we had a wonderful night with great food, unlimited free drink and a brilliant disco which left everyone with sore limbs and sore heads, however we had to be up bright and early on Sunday as it was the marina Boat Jumble. We booked a free table and managed to sell quite a lot of stuff that has been cluttering up Serafina for a while, but judging from what others were selling we could have got rid of a lot more stuff if we had thought about it more. The real trick with these Treasures of the Bilge events is to try and come back to the boat with less stuff than you took. Trouble is there are always tempting items that someone is virtually giving away that are hard to walk away from. We were very abstemious and only bought some wonderful strawberry jam and chutney made by another yachtie.
Sunday afternoon we got back to wiring issues and found another hiccup with the tubing and so on Monday morning I will be back knocking on Demir?s door.
Photos at www.rhbell.com very soon.