S.V Anais Blog

When Dave and I set out on our adventure to travel and to live on our yacht we always thought yachting life was about planning, conserving and getting by. Today, however there is no feeling of doing with out. Dave and Lester fossicked around the reefs to produce the magic main course for tonights dinner…

It finally happened. Lester set up Bron’s rod for trolling and as soon as we set off for Eclipse Island the spoon was in the water. Later in the day, ‘zing’ went the rod. Bron took control of the rod and started the lengthy process of hauling in a catch. Dave slowed the boat to…

After a rush to get the last minute things organised on the boat on Saturday morning, we were finally heading for West Point on Magnetic Island at around 2pm. Shortly after anchoring we headed for the beach and spent the afternoon sitting in the water. A long period had passed and then we were joined…

Today represents the first day of summer and I believe it has definitely arrived here in Townsville. At 10 o’clock this morning our thermometer was on 32 degrees and with little or no wind to keep the humidity at bay we figured we were in for a hot day. Not surprisingly, Dave’s first task for…

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…