Tahiti Day 3 and 4
Zepher
Chris & Lyn Darch
Sun 3 Aug 2008 18:48
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Hi Bloggers ,
Well we have been hard at work and play over the
past few days, getting heaps of bilge cleaning,tank sloshing out,polishing,deck
rubbing down and general maintenance done, its then off for happy hr at the
yacht club and that's why I have missed the blog transmissions !
On the maintenance front the good old grey
tank rears its ugly head again with it seems every time I go of it decides to
play up , this time we think the siphon valve stuck so no allowing the waste
water to be pumped and airlocking the entire system, this meant pipes off blow
through all the system until we found it , a foul smelling job, and some would
say on this vessel just up my ally well not literally but they all say that I'm
the best one to do it !
I got away to the industrial estate again Sat
morning this time on my own as I tend to brows at all things mechanical and the
team find it a tad boring to say the least, problem was I met another like
minded person Vincent from Doci Vita, it ended up as a long lunch as well
so when I returned from the trip was presented with the news on the grey tank !
a nice way to digest a good French lunch !
I must say that everybody has buffed Zephyr
up to being the pride of the fleet again and she now glistened on the jetty
alongside all the Tupperware torpedoes, teak trims gleaming and the glow of the
awlgrip topsides to round it off , we do sound like proud parents but I think
everybody has the same affinity with there boats don't they .
One more day at it and we will all be ship shape,
then it will be off on the tourist trail and storing ship from the supermarket !
Mondays mission will be to get the hire car
and gas bottles filled ... and so another day in paradise will have wound its
way to happy hr time again !
A Contented but well scrubbed crew
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