Sunday my yacht will be launched!! Finally she will go into the water. The Guppy, specially designed for me, is fixed to the boat, as well as a black striping. All other small things have been finished too. Sunday at 14.00 hrs she will be launched in Den Osse. I am having holiday now and am looking forward to make my first trips.
Yesterday I picked up another yacht at Loosdrecht to bring it to Zeeland. This proved to be a trip with obstacles. Right at the beginning the engine refused to go into the reverse. Lucky enough I had to go forward and this was still working. This made it a difficult job mooring up in the locks, but off course this is all good exercising. When I finally reached the Krammerlocks the engine refused to start up again. After a few more tries only smoke came out. What to do now? I try to start by hand and succeeded, enabling me to do the last part of the trip. Lucky enough it was a very old fashioned diesel which you can still start by hand.
This is one of the reasons Guppy has 2 engines, that a least solves this problem.

Laura