Projects / Maintenance

Thursday 10 May: Another public holiday today. The 2nd this week. You gotta love the French attitude to work! On board Cloudy Bay it’s a much better day today, but certainly no…

Wednesday 9 May: A rather frustrating day. First, the Caraibe riggers don’t turn up. They were supposed to come and check the cutter stay tension. We go to their workshop, but as…

Tuesday 8 May: Public holiday here today, but it’s no holiday on CB. First things first, some humble pie to eat. There was in fact nothing wrong with the vang service, as…

Monday 7 May: Warning: Today’s blog will be technical! Alarm for 6.45 then after breakfast we walk to Caraibe Refrigeration in search of Patrice to confirm the appointment. We find him at…

Sunday 6 May: It’s a very quiet morning with just the 2 of us on board again. We intend to relax today before a week of intense maintenance. All sorts of jobs…

Thursday 19 April: We awake early as the fridge technicians are on board at 8am. Immediately they pressure the system and the pressure drops. Our fridge leak has reappeared … again. But…

Wednesday 18 April: We wake up to bad news. Our troublesome fridge is at room temperature …. again. Oh bollocks!! All our hopes that it had miraculously fixed itself 3 weeks ago…