Progress

For those of you who read this yesterday.  Here is an update.  The chain is on board and so are the new sails.  We arrive in Mishima and the beer is still good!





Well the port side cabin top is now painted.  The window re varnished and ready to put the storm window back on.

The wind instruments are up and running.  We haven't tried out the new display we ordered just in case the instruments were not compatible. We are actually not sure where we want to mount it or if we are going to, so that is on hold.  One thought is in the aft cabin so when those middle of the night storms blow we can monitor wind speeds easier..  But no rush on that.

The new chain arrived, so we took the old chain off, saving 10 metres of it for the stern anchor.  The new chain will be marked, spliced on to the short piece of rode we have in case of emergency and loaded back into the locker today.

So tomorrow it we are off to Shuzenji and Gotemba with the Toroa crew for a cherry blossom visit and to drink some good beer.

Mark's dad was scheduled for gall stone surgery yesterday their time so we are waiting to hear how that went.  The doctors are being cautious due to the aneurism problem area he has.  So a little apprehensive but hopefully he will feel better soon.  Pauline's mom went through that a couple years back.

Anyway we have kind of mapped out our passage back to Hiroshima.  Not cast in stone yet i.e. We have not applied for our closed ports permit yet.  But we are down to just the final provisioning and loading the new sails on board, and of course clearing a space for them.  We hope not to use them until we get to Alaska.  But just in case we have a new set of everything except the Genoa which is in pretty good shape.

It looks like Toroa might tag along with us at least part way to Hiroshima so that should be fun.  Present plan is to leave Easter weekend.