Well its that time of year we finally have been able to get Akuna out of the water and have the maintenance start. The list is long and varied (without mention costly) we are stripping her back to bare metal below the water line and doing a full repaint. New instruments spot blasting the deck and full repaint of the deck, new floor and seats. Solar pannels and an additional house battery.

By the time it is finished we will be spending a lot of money but I am hoping that we will soon be at the point where we just get to a regular yearly style maintenance for a while.

So we pulled the boat out and started removing all the fittings and after three weeks of solid sunshine we get the entire monthly average rainfall in one night. We couldn't believe. The weather window for sandblasting the hull and painting is in two days and we have to have all the fittings off and ready for the guys to do their work, could be a late night tonight.