LinoCat

Since on Sunday people should be sober the cocktail party took place already this evening. It was nice and many people. In total more than 1000 people are here for the ARC. People start to really look forward to set sail! Rather tomorrow than on Sunday... A few yachts for the ARC still arrive and some are heavily illuminated at night. Chris and Lani at the party. Lani was sleeping 5 min later and so we could enjoy the party.

Today we tightened the bow-net, went to IKEA for some shopping and to Corte Ingles to pick up the meat and the last stuff. Also there was a radio check but we missed that but i am certain our equipment is up an running. The 12V socket which i added at the outer helm station is working and also the Icom M71 charger which i added. The two 22L Jerrycans (additional Diesel) were filled and i topped off the Diesel main tanks with another 22Liter. In total we carry around 300Liter of Diesel. Another yacht was just at the fueldock and filled in 850Liter. WOW. So we do not have the option to motor to much or run the engine to charge the batteries. Tomorrow i will clean the solar panels so that they give maximum charge current. We also stored the Scubatank which got a new hydro test and was filled. There is some growth on out hull due to being in the marina for 3 weeks but this might be removed tomorrow. There has been an oil spill outside the harbour and this was then washed into our basin. So

Hi, due to the unavailabilty of the Intermar Server for more than one week i changed the link for Positionreports. Now we are going to use: http://shiptrak.org/?callsign=db8us Yesterday there was the Lagoon Cocktaildinner and we fixed a lot of stuff from the to do list. Today we have to go to IKEA and i will post more later.