I will take any excuse to be onboard Sauvage, preferably sailing, but also improving her when sailing is out. Chris Junior and I came up a couple of weeks ago while Kirsten and Neve went to see the semi-final of the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Our task was to fix the sea-water pump on our water maker, which needs to be replaced.
On the first weekend of spring, an old friend of mine from Belgium had arrived in Auckland, and after twice trying to get in a weekend of sailing with him, I can say Auckland’s weather is a very unforgiving mistress!
To cut a long story short, we arrived at the boat among yet more weather warnings – very strong winds, rain and possible flooding for Coromandel, Auckland and Northland (what else!). With gusts of
