Fram's Voyages
This is a big sailing year for us. I have retired from my job as CEO Assistant to sail the seas with Dan. No more rushing out and rushing back. We will take our time and enjoy every minute!
We've been very busy preparing for our departure for the Baltic ever since end of
May when I had my last day at work. Since then, Dan has had to disassemble the
bilge pump a few times, put it back together, test it, disassemble it, try something
else and so on, until finally on Saturday, as a last resort before ordering a new
pump, he tried some gasket paste, spread it out all over to smooth the corroded
surfaces and let it dry over night. That seems to have done the trick. In the mean
time I've been provisioning, stowing things like life jackets, safety harnesses and
foul weather gear. Yesterday I went through all our charts and put the relevant
ones into plastic pages so they will be readily available once we get going.