Well the holiday period for Paul and I has been relaxing but busy. We celebrated Christmas lunch with my Parents our son Xavier and our neighbour Jean. We then went visiting other family.
On Boxing Day we went down to Auckland to pick up a new (second hand) dinghy that we bought off Trade Me. We think it is a John Wellsford design "Tender Behind", this is a dinghy we have liked for a long time. It is plywood glassed over, and a pram configuration. We are hoping to get a centre board put into it at some point, and then we can install a mast and voila, a sailing dinghy. It fits on the deck of Kabuki, under the boom, without a millimetre to spare. It is a very stable dinghy in the water, but does not row quite as well as "Milligan" our previous dinghy.
We now have 4 dinghy's, two fibreglass, one plywood and the inflatable. I think it is time to downsize our dinghy fleet.
Paul and I managed to complete the rest of the stocking of the boat, we only have the fresh items to get now. It has stowed away really well in our starboard settee locker, prior to this trip Paul had ropes and spares in that locker. We were able to move things around in the stowage department after we removed the holding tank in the bow. Now storage is a bit easier.
We managed to get Kabuki's registration number on the hull, but I think Paul has committed a big faux pas by putting "New Zealand" above the Rego number.
The wedding happens this weekend, so we are looking forward to that. We got caught up in wedding preperation last night with Jason and Tash doing the last minute organising from wedding central, our dining table.
Anyway only 12 days before we take off, it seems to be taking forever to get here. Paul has had to go back to work this morning to do some quoting. But hopefully He will be home at lunchtime. I am off to buy myself a new pair of shoes to go with the new dress I have bought. I think I am a bit odd, as I do not really enjoy shopping for myself, I find the whole thing very depressing.
Cheers for now.
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