Sunday 1 April

We woke to another 10 cms of snow that had fallen overnight. It looked wonderful, but even with the occasional new flurry during the morning, it started to melt quite quickly. I think the temperature has been a little higher today, which has been rather welcome and the forecasts are saying that this might be the last of the extreme cold for the year. We are managing to keep warm inside our floating igloo, with the various heating devices taking turns to get the temperature up.

I’ve spent a good amount of time clearing snow off the decks, not something I ever thought I would have to write about. I fear our deck brush may never be the same again.  It was easy enough on the foredeck where the snow had not been trampled down, but the cockpit area was much more difficult. We were very impressed that a snow-plough had been around the marina area before 10:00 this morning, Easter Sunday. The roads are largely clear, and when we walked into town every occupied house had cleared the snow from the pavement outside. We noted that there are still there are queues at the ice cream shops, I really don’t understand this!

You can see the ice cream queue beyond Chris and Tricia...

We didn’t write about our experience a couple of days ago, when the boat was first launched.  All of a sudden there were repeated inquiries about whether we had received invoices from the boatyard and other service suppliers. We assured them that we had received these over the previous few days and were in the process of paying them. It transpires that their concern is that once your boat is seaworthy again, you will skip off without paying. Apparently someone did this a couple of years ago, leaving unpaid bills of €10,000. We never heard what nationality they were, but I can understand the concern, when it may be impossible to trace the culprits. Fortunately all is now paid and everyone is happy.

The scene by the end of the day.

Distance covered today - 0 nautical miles

Total distance covered - 0 nautical miles

Steve (and Tricia)