At 1400, as planned, the traveler lift arrived to move MaRe back into her natural element, the sea. The last 3 weeks I worked 12h/d to get her ready for the splash. Just before 1400 everything was prepared. The last thing to do was the coppercoat activation at the hull areas where MaRe was lying…

During the last days I worked 12 h per day on the boat. Additionally i needed to get the rub rail sealed with sikaflex, a work which I asked Robi to do it. He is a nice and honest guy but needs to get pushed a bit to do things according to my schedule. I…

Yesterday morning, with good weather, I started very early in the morning the patching. Work went very smooth and in 2 – 3 h 5 layers were applied. From that moment for 48 h no rain might hit the coppercoat because for that time coppercoat is water-soluble. Murphy’s law hit. An hour later it started…

Yesterday Robi finished the fiberglass & gel coat work at both stems. This was necessary because I will replace the rub rails. Old holes need to be closed and the surface need to be made smooth with gel coat. Today we pre-attached the rub rails. For this work 4 hands are needed and Robi had…

As announced the technician came on Thursday, 6-Oct-2206 to reconnect the saildrive to the PRT engine. Yesterday the work was completed. Only the rubber to close reduce the opening around the saildrive and the GRP protection for the rubber could not be fixed because the hull was wet from yesterday’s all day heavy rain. It…

Got yesterday an email that all parts arrived and technician will come to MaRe on Thursday. Thus next week splash into the water.

As I got already several questions about the influence of a hurricane in Panama, here the situation in Panama. Panama is sufficiently SW in the Caribbean Sea to not get hit by hurricanes. This is the reason why we left Cuba already in the first May days and sailed to Panama. I will stay here…

…although I’m pretty angry about Wikus’ father who makes the communication and schedule for his son. Wikus it’s the technician who started to repair my saildrive and PRT engines power train. Today I sent another mail with an inquiry on when Wikus will complete the work on my boat… I wondering what will be tomorrow’s…

3 days ago I got the information that Gary Nichols’ technicians will come and re-install the genset. They used a smart approach to make sure the generator drive belt is well aligned. An immediate test failed. Reason was momentarily unclear. As it was already late they left to come back. Today they came back and…

Engine & saildrive repair is still not yet done. I was told they received several times the wrong part. True or not I can’t judge. Will they come this week? Genset repair – I will ask today for the status of the machine shop work. Hopefully this is done. From my side all is ready…