A Room With A View
The view from the porthole making coffee in the morning is of Table Mountain. Pinch me. Life on a small boat moored at the Royal Cape Yacht Club, which is in the very busy Table Bay Harbour of Cape Town, continues. Tested the solar panels and worked on how they will be mounted onto the stern pulpit. This will have to be trial and error as we go. Being a ketch, we can have a lot of sail up. The watermaker is the big challenge, but other yachties have told me they survive on rainwater. Wash and do washing only when it rains. No. On our voyage down the SA coast we made notes on problems encountered; we need to fix this, we need to waterproof that. Sometimes a solution is still to reveal itself. So daily life involves making something new, fixing something, maintaining something, and cleaning something. The reward is landing in a beautiful place with a view. Table Mountain as a backdrop. Fixing something, again Scary se...