Sunday my boat was launched and of course baptized. The weather was very bad, lots of wind and rain, but still some people apparently did not care and came out to watch the launching.
Afterwards we celebrated on Guppy with a couple of acquaintances and friends. She is now happily alongside the ship we are living on. From the porthole in the living room I can look at her all the time. In the water she even looks better than before, obviously as this is the place where boats should be. New valves were placed and lucky enough they all seem to be watertight. Also the new shaft and rudder prove to be installed watertight. Yesterday I collected the new halyards and my dinghy, both sponsored. The weather was not really encouraging to work on the boat. Today there is a lot of wind as well, but lucky the sun came out too. A good day to test my new outboard en dinghy. Unfortunately I can still not try out Guppy as the main engine is not installed yet. The gear coupling was tested and proved to be malfunctioning so it has to be overhauled now. Guppy sails fine on the 2nd engine but with so much wind I don’t think it is a good idea to move a 12.50 meter yacht with an auxiliary engine of 10 hp only.

Laura