Darwin – Sailing with Saphir

We have planned a hall out of Saphir on the 9th of Aug and going back in on the 4 sep to get the hull painted again so we have less things that can grow on the hull which will help us not so lose speed. The growing can actually slow us done up to 1 knot.

Before we start all fixing on the boat me and Karen took a tour in to town to get a few things and look at the town. Had some lunch at waterfront where city meets the water. Here you can swim safe and they even have a pool with waves. We didn’t have time for this this time.

Since the boat is getting up we need to defrost the freezer and the fridge. Lots of ice in the fridge little freeze box.. Nafier the mechanic found why it was making noice in the machine room. The rubber stabiliser under the engine was broken. New ordered and hope to get them before we leave.

Next thing is to repair our heat exchanger . This took other mechanics 20 hours work in the boat and three to times bringing it to their workshop. New is ordered and will hopefully get to us in Mauritius. Let’s hope it will work until then or actually much longer.

Time to haul out Saphir early morning due to the tide. Mornings like this with a beautiful sunrise, puts a smile on my face even though the day didn’t end as we hoped. Sadly or more very annoying, the boat that was getting in to the water had problem so we ended up not getting out of the water.

Back to the marina and trying to cancel our hotel booking since Saphir is not on the hard. It was to late and we had stay at the hotel…. poor us getting air condition, lots of space, specially over our heads and a pool. Although we spent the days at the marina me sewing and Edgar checking the workers. Evenings we enjoyed Darwin trying different restaurants.