Sailboat BOAT WORK haul out and losing a son - Ep 82

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Sailboat BOAT WORK haul out and losing a son
Six weeks after the lightning strike we are finally haul out our sailboat for it’s refit. Not so much for repairs straight away, as we still need to secure multiple quotes for all the damaged items before we get the go ahead from the insurance company. We are no longer able to generate enough power to supply the limited items still working so we need to plug in to shore power.
Time passes slowly.
Due to the fear of dropping behind with his education, Declan decides to return to New Zealand and school. Also he doesn’t want to get bored waiting for the something to happen in the boat yard. And he’s not wrong February bleeds in to March without any repairs taking place. We alleviate the boredom by taking time out for good behaviour at The Gold Coasts theme parks.
Rob also catches up with Declan and Finn when he travels to NZ for work and Finn has some rather exciting performances in his rowing skiff.

We manage a round up of two months in this episode inching us closer to real time.

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Music
Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
The Careful Ones – Favorite Dream
De Joie – Bern river lament instrumental
The Careful Ones – Favorite Dream instrumental
Jamie Lono – New Orleans
David Mumford – Ball and chain

WHO ARE WE?
In 1997, after a disastrous Olympic rowing campaign, Rob decided to row a seven-metre plywood boat, 2500 miles from Tenerife in the Canary Islands to Barbados in the Caribbean. It took 6 weeks and he and his rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, won the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race.
Skip forward to 2014, we invested in Javelot a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Robert’s 3 years of racing P class yachts from the age of 11 to 13, and Rachel’s non existent sailing knowledge, we set off to learn the ropes of ocean sailing. We broke stuff, replaced stuff and got to know our boat before heading offshore with our three children, Finn 17, Declan 15 and Ivan 12, in tow.
Through trial and error, we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
Our plan? To sail around the world, meet the locals and record our adventures. Part of the journey will be retracing Rob’s eldest brother Kerry’s travels at sea. Using Kerry’s original letters from the 1970’s we will re trace his movements from Australia through Indonesia and South East Asia to Cambodia where Kerry’s life was cut short after straying into Cambodian waters in 1978. Kerry and two friends were attacked by a Khmer Rouge gun boat, captured, tortured and executed.

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