Saturday, November 26, 2011

Jan Haring

Hmmm, does that name ring a bell??



Well for us it does of course!
THIS was our floating home for >> 19 years!
Jan Haring took us safely from Holland to NZ to Japan to NZ
and back to Japan.

A few weeks ago, I met Japanese sailor Murano san who happened to have seen this nice BoatBum sitting on a boat yard in Osaka, took a picture of it and added it on his Own Blog.
Small world.

Re AIRFISH

Wow, AIRFISH gets about 30.000 hits/day!
Of course including a few by us, as we can't stop watching it.




Sunday, November 13, 2011

AIRFISH

 
Watch this full screen and with the volume up!
 
The BEST we've seen in a longgg time!
 
                        AIRFISH
 
 
            http://youtu.be/vIJINiK9azc
 

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Haul Out


Hmm,  was it only a few days ago when i wrote a go-around email that Alishan didn't move much?
Well, last Monday waves were made, all the way to Odo Yacht Harbor ( 2 miles from our location) as Alishan was due for a haul-out.
The last bottom-job was almost 4 years ago at Langawi, Malaysia.




Awaiting the marina staff to show-up. 
It's a city marina and so, they like sitting...

Anyway, here we are up-up-up and out of the drink..

Alishan is now 22 years old and (of course) she shows a few pimples....
But overall, her condition is great.
 The paint job done at Langkawi must have been a good one...
...or was it due to the special anti fouling (Chin Ho Special) available only  in Malaysia?

Day 3 on the hard......first coat of red anti fouling.

The weather was perfect, so.....1 guy is applying the second coat of anti fouling (black), 1 guy is waxing the hull and ...i couldn't be stopped doing the laundry. (Marijke had to work those days).

Somebody wasn't very co-operative.....

A misbehaving valve was replaced.

Well, what do you think? 
Day 4.


Alishan on the Lazy Susan.
Pfff, only a few more meters to go, then down, float and get out of this place.

Salute

Monday, November 7, 2011

Fu Kyo the Cat

From now on, pictures, trip and event reports regarding
Fu Kyo the Cat are at


Salute