On a dull, wet day in the Red Frog Marina, Sally and I finally wrestled 50kg of stainless steel onto the transom using the radar pole and the davits as cranes. My iPhone spirit level reckons its vertical in two planes but there’s scope for adjustment. The Hydrovane is now bolted firmly in place but will need some tweaking before it can be commissioned. As always we never have exactly the right tools to finish the job!
Sally and Simon left Scotland in 2015 on board Shimshal to begin a slow circumnavigation taking in various high latitude destinations. After 3 seasons in Greenland we sailed south to Lewisporte in northern Newfoundland. In 2019 we cruised the Canadian Maritimes. In 2022 & 23 we cruised via New England, Chesapeake, Florida, Cuba, Cayman, Providencia to Bocas del Toro. In late 2023 we transited the Panama Canal and in 2024 we sailed to French Polynesia via Galapagos.