Month: November 2007

We are experiencing such mixed emotions. Why did she decide to go versus why did she decide to return? Yes, a very hungry and thirsty cat is back on our boat. We have no idea as to what she has been up to for the past 48 hours except causing much anxiety and grief to…

Our ‘Princess’ is missing. On Saturday evening we returned home from dinner with some friends from Brisbane only to discover ‘Princess’ was no where to be found. We searched every finger with in the marina through out the night, rattling her food bowl but all to no avail. Usually the food bowl brings her scampering…

We are back at the marina and things are slowly returning to normal again. Yesterday, I cleaned and cleaned inside the boat – removing most of the sanding dust that managed to make its way through our taped up hatches. We had two top hatches completely removed throughout the sanding process and whilst we tried…

Here are the results of our Makeover. The light grey on the deck is very cool under our bare feet and the netting is there to prevent Princess from ‘jumping ship’. See a before picture of Anais on this blog.

Here is a picture of our boat from our hotel room. We can not see all the boat and I was going to mark the photo with a circle to highlight Anais. However, the new paint job is so white and shinny that I felt that the bright white light emitting from the centre of…

Our undercoat was applied this morning. It was a thick coat of Jotun 2 pack. We have placed Princess into a cattery and vacated the boat. The odour from the undercoat is not too serious however, once the painter starts to apply the top coat the smell will become over powering. Also, the logistics of…

It has taken almost two and a half days to get to the stage where the deck is completely stripped and most rust spots blasted as well as two hatches removed and treated for rust around the seals.

Time has rolled around again for our annual maintenance program. The previous owner had anti-fouled the boat every 12 months and we have decided to maintain the same ritual. This time however the task has become a lot bigger. After numerous attempts to contain rust spots on the deck, we bit the bullet and decided…

Here are a series of pictures from our trip to Rattlesnake as promised. The first is one of the views from our boat. The other below right is yet again another sunset picture. This was a day out – we started our day with Eggs Benedict on ‘Anais’, followed by Champaign, wine and then more…

Last week after we received several quotes for boat painting and with much deliberation we came to the decision to take the boat out of the water with Townsville Slipway this coming Monday. In one respect it is a relief to know the work will be conducted on the boat in the near future. However,…