Hours after arrivai and even on a Sunday, Iwabuchi-san discussed with me the work I want to do with stuff from ABS.Beside this there is plenty to be done for me on my own.Immediately on Monday morning I started disassembling the Onan genset (combination of a diesel engine and a generator). On Wednesday we used…

As mentioned before, OBM could, via a friend, arrange for me that I can keep MaRe at a pier of the Arari Ship Builders. There I will do another part of maintenance and repair. I decided to take the direct route because the wind forecast was more than lousy. The weather models differed too much.…

For more than a week I worked on the last things to be done until that day. OBM tackled during the weekend and the national holiday in her very special and focused way cleaning the interior. She did an excellent job. On the 20st at close to 0400 we both were exhausted, took a shower and…

Or what will Poseidon deliver us? When I wrote “Poseidon” I thought, I need to have a look at the Japanese mythology and who are the gods who need to friendly to us on our way to Arari bay. I found an interesting site: https://mythopedia.com/topics/japanese-gods/, which list all Japanese gods with a short explanation. There…

Last Friday, the Volvo guys completed the re-assembly of the engines, and started the engines for the first time after the maintenance / overhaul. Although the STB engine took its time to start – it complained about air in fuel pipe – it ran as always after the lines were bled. On Saturday, the Volvo…

I recently wrote to a very special good old friend, “The contrast between Tokyo and those tiny, poor – but still so rich – islands in the South Pacific is huge.” Now, I need to get used to Tokyo again. Tokyo is the metropolis I lived in for more than half of my life. I…

I mentioned already a few times the 12 m race boat “sleeper” on which I was a crew member in the 90s. Yesterday we had a small reunion on board of MaRe being in maintenance mode and on the hard. Not the most beautiful place for a reunion but one with very good feelings and…

At MaRe I’m cleaning up. Many things need laundry at home because for the last about 6-8 month the washing machine could not be used. Need to replace the PCB. Hulls are pressure cleaned and look very good for the time she was on the water and especially for the longer periods in bays just…

N  35° 38.028 E 139° 42.223 There was plenty of admin work to be done after being away from home for 5 years. Renewal of my Japanese ID card was the first, followed by an extension of my MyNumber card. Next I tackled the renewal of my driver’s license. This was not that easy. Fortunately,…