Dead tired!

 Oh my, very hard work today. I am dead tired. BUT. The mast is now packed for transport. Now we are just trying to get hold of the guy who is going to drive it from here to Travemunde.
Tomorrow we have to get some diesel. We only have 75 liters and we need to fill up the tank, that is about 200 liters. Unfortunately the guy who comes with a mobile filling station does not want to come if we don't buy more then 300 liters. So we have to move into the marina of the town of Port St Louis and walk over to the filling station with our two 20 liters fuel cans a couple of times to fill up. I guess I will be as tired tomorrow as today. But it feels very good to soon be leaving for the Rhone river. /Mari

Wrap the mast and...

...send it off to Travemunde with Yachtservice Wolfgang Graf (Germany). This will be among the first things to attend when arriving in Port Saint Louis. We are now scanning the market for a long plastic tube that can be used for covering the mast during the transport across Europe. Secure it with 100 metres of silver tape will hopefully make it last through the roughly 1,500 km journey. Myth Busters has in more than one experiment proved that silver tape is immensely strong though quite sensitve to UV radiation. /Johan