31 August

16 Aug. 10


Pay day, or is it pay out day. I suppose if I was working for someone it would be pay day, but since I am not it is pay out day. Would be nice if I could just keep the money and not pay anyone for a few months, that way the trip would be very soon, however I don’t believe that my employees would agree to this idea.
Today we went through to Germiston and registered Yrumoar with SAS. Now the task of removing the old name everywhere and renaming her has to be done next time we go down. We want to make a bit of a ceremony and celebration out of this, very exciting stuff.

18 Aug. 10

Lately I have been reading more and more books. At the moment I am reading “ Demistifying Sectional Title", "The Book Of Photography" and "Come Wind Come Weather” all at the same time. My English teacher at school would have been so proud of me right now. Unfortunately, I never knew that I enjoyed reading until about a year ago and never did much reading before then. So it’s as if I am trying to catch up on lost time. I cannot decide what kind of books I really enjoy yet but it seems to be all kinds. Early in the morning whilst having breakfast I like to read the photography book. During the course of the day I like to study up the sectional titles act, and at night before I go off to dreamland, I read the sailing adventure story. Oh my goodness I think I have become a nerd.















24 Aug. 10

Well it seems our “stolen trip” is coming to an end, so tomorrow we will be heading back to gangsters paradise and back to real life again. Thanks to the ongoing teachers strike we were afforded this little break away. Axel and Peta came to visit over the weekend but we didn’t go out sailing with them instead we went to see the beach and had some wicked curry over at the dockside. Thanks for the visit guys, hope you enjoyed your stay.

We eventually went sailing yesterday in a good 15 knots of wind. Lola kept her pointed into the wind whilst Rauen and I hoisted the main sail. Previously I mentioned that the sail plan has to be fixed since the installation of the bimini (the roof over the cockpit or outside area). So in order for the main sail to be hoisted I had to first make a new tack (the front point where the sail attaches to the mast). I used a short piece of rope about 300 mm long with two bowline knots at either end to make the new tack, that together with the use of one of the reefing lines enabled the main sail to function in a fashion. We unrolled the fuller headsail and sailed around in the harbour for a while whilst practising to tack (turn with the front of the boat through the wind) and also to ensure that my modification was working. Once I was comfortable that everything was working we headed out of the harbour and into the ocean. The wind and sea state in the harbour is almost like sailing on a dam with the difference coming as you near the exit of the harbour and you start to feel the swell of the ocean. The boat gently starts to move up and over each swell as it comes. Once you pass the break waters the conditions change rapidly and the movements increase dependant upon the state of the sea. We had two metre waves with a five second interval between the waves and since we were sailing on a beam reach (the wind coming from the left or right side) the waves were also coming from the side making the boat rock from side to side with the occasional hull slam that comes with sailing on a catamaran.

Due to the break waters and because it is shallow the sea is very confused with waves coming from all sides when you just leave the harbour but once you are outside the conditions calm and the waves start to come in sets making the motion on the boat a lot more pleasant. Lola did all the steering and once we returned to the harbour she complained that her feet were killing her because she had to stand all the time since we don’t have a chair to sit on whilst steering.

We had packed our laptops on Kyle’s bed to keep them from falling around in the ocean thinking that it was a safe dry spot. To our surprise we discovered that water had found its way onto Kyle’s bed. After some investigation and having to strip the motor ignition panels out we found a small dam of water behind the ignition panels above Kyle’s bed. We now knew where the water had come from, but how it got there still has to be solved.

The hidden offending dam of water