Now whose party is this? Sydney (left, in white) is turning 60! 

Back on the boat, finally!

Traveling with about 140 kg of luggage wasn't as bad as we had feared. We were quite glad that we had booked the hotel in New York in advance though. And when the customs inspector here asked us whether we were moving here, I could barely manage to keep a straight face and answer in the negative.

So, back on the boat we are. One of the first things we found out was that the new water tanks hadn't been put in yet and that one of the saildrives still had water in the oil. Not good that. Then the air-conditioning died...

I have since replaced the submersible 110V seawater pump and now it is working again. Let's see what happens next. Apart from the usual technical details the weather is very nice with about 29°C. Humidity is extremely high and this early morning we are having our first few drops of rain.

While our fridge was in good shape, we had apparently forgotten to open the freezer door with the result that alien life-forms mutated in there. The most impressive one was a jellyfish-size amoeba-like lump of mold which floated on the remains of an exploded Coke can. It didn't get us first and so we murdered it on the spot.

Right now we are waiting for the shop to open at 8:00 so that we can have a proper breakfast with whole-wheat baguette, brie, salami and so on accompanied by two mugs of ice-coffee. :-)