The haul out

This is how it looked like. The travel lift was a bit short and very narrow, so I had to aim right to get in.

Then the bow gets tied, two spring lines from the back, and up she goes. Very stresfull as one starts hanging from 2 slings and slowly the tractor and electric winches pull us up...

This was one of the heaviest boats ever pulled out here. We weight in at about 28 tons, although we took off a lot of weight and put it in storage... anchors, chain, jerrycans, gas bottles, sails, etc... All went well. Now the work has stared and its a mess everywhere. We've got work to do on the diesel engine (change engine mounts, do a complete engine revision), transmission (change the sterngland box), electric systems (redo wiring in various places), hydraulics (boom vang leaks), outboard engine, dinghy, watermaker, dive compressor, eletronics, and so on.

I expect we'll be stuck here for a couple of weeks - on the dry - then another week to 10 days in the water, and then hopefully we can sail on to Durban and Capetown.