Summertime Again
Summertime and her crew are finally underway on our next trip. Cleopatra marina We had wintered the boat in Cleopatra Marina near Preveza in the Greek Ionian. This has all worked well and the team there are very professional. But what they charge for doing work on your boat is in proportion to their skills, inflated by the abundance of work available. It is a huge yard and the various technical departments are constantly overwhelmed with work so getting stuff done is not cheap, nor are your emergencies an urgent issue to them. For these reasons I had a quick trip out a couple of weeks ago to spend a few days getting stuff in order. The list of jobs to be done was daunting, however they had to be done. Many of them were reversing what we had done when the boat was laid up for the winter. The principle list was: Fibreglass repair to rudder and bow thruster . These had been damaged when the previous owners had the old antifouling removed by grinders. Sorting out the reefing