Just two days now before Summer Song goes back into the water at
Totnes. She's been high and dry for nearly two months now, but it's
only really in the last ten days that plumbers, electricians,
shipwrights and riggers have been swarming all over her.
In fact, in the last week Alex and I have been performing all those
roles. So if hot water starts pouring out of the mast or the
watermaker begins to flash, at least we'll know who to blame. Below,
Alex is pictured in her best texhnician's whites, sanding down the
hull on the quay with the rolling green of Devon in the background -
very nautical.
What with moving out of the flat in London and doing up Summer Song,
it's been a gloriously busy fortnight. She gets lowered into the water
on Monday and we'll be heading for Ushant by the middle of the week.
Then we're aiming for south Brittany for a couple of weeks relaxing in
the Morbihan before inching south and around the fringes of Biscay via
La Rochelle and the Basque coast. We've got more than three months to
arrive in Gran Canaria, so we're not setting a blistering pace. But I
suspect we'll soon adjust to life at 5 miles per hour. In the meantime
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