Sailing delayed to 3rd November

Well it is Wednesday afternoon, 31st October, and while many of you may be thinking of all things halloween, this ship should be at sea right now. However, as I am writing this in my office and I am not sailing, clearly the ship is delayed further in Trogir.

We have been waiting for some important documentation called the "stability book" which is required before we can get our final certificates to sail. This book has not arrived so far and therefore we have not been able to sail. We also need a Port State Inspection which is the last thing that happens before we sail and is conducted by the local harbour master.

In order to pass that, we were told that we need to do more work cleaning up the engine room, so once again over the past 2 days, I have been helping out with that.


Heather is stuck in the house with the kids who have finished school and it is pouring with rain so not much fun there.

We are now aiming to sail Saturday because tomorrow, Thursday is a national holiday and therefore we can't get the inspection until Friday.

We as a family will either leave Friday afternoon or Saturday morning and head up to Italy.

We will give another update when we arrive at the place in Switzerland where we will stay for a week.