31 days to go

I have started laying in supplies for our trip, I have been scouring the supermarkets for specials on the items that we want. Not doing to bad so far, slowly building the stores of Red wine and chocolate. As we do not use the refridgeration unit on Kabuki, we have to lay in stores with a long shelf life. We have discovered that we can keep cheese on the boat in the bilges, as long as we buy small packs or cheese with a rind on it. Salami is a great meat substitute, but it has to be real salami, not the luncheon type of salami. The pile of stuff in the garage is growing by the week.
We received Kabuki's ship registration the other day, not quite what I was expecting (thought it would be real flash). Kabuki's registration is NZ 1759.
We have not been down the boat much lately as Paul has developed a skin disorder of some sort, and He is covered in what looks like hives, and they are itchy. It has been quite hot here lately and that makes it worse, so He has been very subdued.
Not much else is happening at the moment, we seem to be in hiatus until mid-January.

Cheers for now.

39 days to go

Paul and I are in countdown mode, 39 days until we head off for our 2 month jaunt along the Northland Coast. We had planned to leave before this, but our Son Jason gets married on the 8th of January, we thought we had better hang around for that. Paul will not be working for all of that period, as his work has a Christmas/New Year break for a few weeks. So we are hoping to get Kabuki out for a few days somewhere along the line.
We are still waiting to get Kabuki's Ship Registration, they have banked the cheque. We got our passports back in record time, Paul's was back in 4 working days, mine took a few days longer (I must be a dodgy character). I was surprised that they rang my quarantor Jean, they asked her to describe me, and how tall I was etc. Admittedly it has been 28 years since I last applied for a New Zealand Passport, I have used my Australian passport since I was about 25.
Was really cool to be contacted by Phil and Brenda, previous owners of Kabuki. Ross the man we bought her off said that her name had been changed to Kabuki, previously it was Windy II. I am quite glad Phil and Brenda changed her name to Kabuki, I would hate to have been Wendy from Windy II. I would really like to find out who built Kabuki from the kit, and what other sailing she has done, time will tell.
I am reading Miles Hordern's book "Sailing the Pacific" at the moment, along with Pete Goss' "Close to the wind" and Bob Bitchin's "The sailing life" (yes I am a book whore, I need to read more than one at a time). They all are very inspiring reading, and Bob's attitude just makes you want to get out there and do it.
So roll on the next 39 days.