April 2013 and planning is underway for this year’s sailing trip. We are looking forward to escaping the extreme cold that has ravaged the UK through March and still shows no sign of lettng up. Croatia may not be much better, but it can’t be any worse! We fly out on April 11th for a 4 day maintenance trip and an opportunity to visit the local supermarkets to stock the boat. Mo has been given the task of cleaning up the engine and repainting it. This is likely to mean her morphing into very small spaces which may not agree with the bad back that has plagued her for several months. She is ever hopeful that the intense physio and exercise program she has been undertaking will have prepared her for all of this. One thing has become clear that once on board and sailing, exercise must be taken very seriously – something our more mature years has made very necessary!
Nigel has the skilled tasks of wiring new electrical kit, replacing one of the cabin windows, servicing the heads, looking to fit a foot pump so that we can get water if the electric pump ever fails and he has other plans which Mo is sure will involve removing the headlining in all of the cabins. Not something to look forward to and it may mean that they decamp into Joso’s, the local hotel, for the duration.
The plan so far is to rejoin Deja Vu II mid-May, after the Choir concert Mo is taking part in, and head north to Istria. We have arranged to meet up with Sharon and Peter Matthews in Pula on May 21st and introduce them to the delights of sailing! We will head north to Slovenia and then on to Trieste in Italy, where we leave Deja Vu in the safe hands of the Sunbeam yard for a rigging refit. Whilst that is being done, we will head back home in early June, when we are looking forward to going to our god daughter, Emma’s wedding.
Deja Vu 