Monday-Tuesday......week 2 already!

Monday....
Hang on, when i was talked in to this little trip Roger talked about working in shorts and how warm it was....
so why is it raining and cold again?
Decided to use the morning to source materials to rebuild the cabin that i had very carefully demolished over the weekend so off to Ferrolegno (Metal and wood, a very apt name for a hardware store) and then Self (as in Do it your) managed to find some very nice hitec insulation and some white faced panels to make the headlinings with.

Then in the afternoon it was off again to Cannes to Collect R + L and bring them back. This also involved bringing 3 other people back from Cannes to Nice Airport with everyones luggage!!! so that was 6 people in a jeep cherokee, that's 2 in the front and 4 in the back with the boot full of bags so the local gendarmes cant see whats happening.... It worked, if you got the order right.... But it did involve stopping for a rather nice dinner before the airport... but that only made it harder for everyone to get in.

Tuesday.
The tent arrived. I woke to the sound of  loads of italians walking all over the boat and finally we have a large white cocoon. Amazing they stuck the plastic over in the morning and started to shrink it in the afternoon.
This means that we can now remove the windows safely without worrying about the weather.

Roger and i thought the best plan was to stay well out of the way so we proceeded to put up headlinings and replace wiring in the fwd cabin. This all went well, in fact so well that we rewarded ourselves by finishing in time to head round to the barbaque.

For those who haven't caught on yet this is a bit of a tradition in San Remo. Every Tuesday there is a barbeque on the superyacht dock which normally then turn into a crowd standing round a bonfire in the winter.

You can begin to see a few issues with this firstly we light a fire next to billions!!! of pounds/dollars worth of yachts and secondly what do we burn?
Roger and i took a few bits of off cuts from the work we had been doing but there really wasn't enough to keep going so Scotty (the engineer off Dark Shadow, a 100' wally yacht) and I jumped in their crew truck and went on a raiding party.

We had noticed over the weekend that another boat had been making up some floor panels using a couple of pallets as a sort of workbench, well to cut a long story short they might have to find something else to use in the morning! and know one will ever work out who it was (apart from they turned up in a huge 4x4 pickup with DARK SHADOW written right down the side!!).

Anyway we stayed a few hours till the food was running low and hypothermia was starting in our feet and then said farewell and headed back to our nice heated boat...another great evening.

Night Night...