I
know we have not posted many blogs this summer with travel and work, but here
goes nothing. In the beginning of June I spent a few weeks in the UK
visiting Kristina and James. The country side was beautiful and I hope to
go back again soon. Kristina came back with me and spend about 4 weeks
with Kevin and I, it was lovely spending time together.
Kevin
has been working very diligently on upgrades to Serena Rose. Here are a
few of his most recent projects;
- Installing new solar panels on the pilot house roof.
- Adding a new 12 volt refrigeration cold plates, with a coolant pump from the fresh water tanks to help in cooling. This reduced some of the volume in the refrigerator, but at least we will not have to run the generator twice a day when at anchor.
- He replaced some damaged sections of the mahogany toe rail with teak.
- The next big project is the new Silent Wind Turbine system, which is on order and will be here in September.
Over
the summer Sweet Chariot (a sister ship of Serena Rose), came back to the
states after a year + cruise down Island. Shortly after returning
Jim and Tammy sold Sweet Chariot to a nice couple from England; Toby, Sam and
their sweet dog Sophie. Toby and Kevin have been doing a lot of noodling
the past few weeks.
Hopefully
we will start sailing again toward the end of September. Hope to see all
of our "Just Sayin Pirate" friends out at sea.
