Our New Home

We moved into our new home she was 'on the hard stand' at Fox's Marina, in Ipswich, Suffolk and in need of some TLC after 16 months on the hard.  John's project management skills come to the fore and our list of tasks began - resulting in 12-14hrs days to get everything done. Thank goodness the 'crew' had been warned out about this phase otherwise mutiny would have resulted with the long hard days of work.  Gone are the days of soft office hands for the two of us:)

Carrying everything we needed up the stairs kept us fit.

Leaving New Zealand

After years of planning and dreaming we finally did it and resigned from our military careers - a combined 55 years service - we still wonder where all those years went!  Our last day in uniform quickly rolled around, with our jobs completed, townhouse rented, personal gear stored and car sold we left Wellington to spend a week with family. As expected the time with family flew by and our day of departure had arrived. We were now ready to fly to the UK to move into our new home - an Oyster 49ft yacht named Sabbaticus. We can't believe we are finally leaving NZ to realise our dream of sailing away.  Are we mad!!
 

Ready to go at Auckland International Airport ...