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| Olivia looks like a million dollars. She has attracted some compliments. Just the prop shaft job now. |
I am beginning to feel like a permanent resident here!! Most of the work has been completed. Anti foul has been applied, hull has been polished, and various small jobs finished. When the workmen removed the prop shaft and bearing they found that electrolysis had occurred and it was obvious that a new shaft was necessary. That meant a new one had to be machined to fit Olivia. That job has been outsourced to a business not in this complex and despite Nautilus Marine's continuous pressure the job is taking longer than expected. It seems that they are finally on to it this morning (Thursday) so I am keeping my fingers crossed. We are now two days longer on the hard than expected and at $90 per day we hope it won't be too long. It's looking more like Monday might be our launch date.
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| Peter works on the rudder |
We frequent the coffee shop here - a particularly nice one, for coffee and a shared muffin each morning. On Monday we walked to the Gold Coast City Marina next door and that place is HUGE, like The Boat Works on steroids. We had morning coffee there, but they don't have as nice a restaurant as we have here.
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| 65 today, at The Boat Works |
On Tuesday morning we decided to walk to Oxenford shopping centre to have a look for the Bunnings I saw over there when I went shopping with Val. It turned out to be a 5.2km walk there so by the time we got back my feet had had enough. It was a pleasant walk though, crossing the Coomera River and around a river parkland area. Killed some time!
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| Early morning visitors float past in a pumpkin |
As mentioned the rates here are $90 per day for the hardstand work area, but Sunday is free so that is $540 for a week for Olivia at 43'. Lift out is $430. Austin, an American guy, who is next to us has a 32' yacht and his fee is $68 per night. For that you get free en-suite bathrooms, laundries and courtesy cars for up to 3 hours at a time and we can live aboard, so no motel fees. So far we have borrowed the courtesy car three times this week. There are several cars and a couple of utes. An honesty system operates for fuel use where you decide how much fuel has been used and put money in the jar in the office. When it looked like we were going to be here this weekend Peter went to enquire about hire cars so we could do some exploring around the district. The office girl said, 'What about the courtesy cars?' Apparently we can book the car from 4pm on Friday for the weekend and go exploring, the only stipulation being we fill the fuel tank when we deliver it back on Monday morning. Peter did explain we wanted to go exploring and she said that is what it is for. What a bonus! Now I am not dreading the weekend.
Billy
Billy is a little terrier who owns the cat (boat) next to us. He loves his boat life and has such a perky attitude. In the morning Peter and I get up before his master and he is there with his happy, yappy good morning and asking for us to take him for a walk. He looks very disappointed when we tell him to wait for the boss. Billy is 2 years old and is a Kiwi. He has changed colour since moving in here and is now a dirty grey colour and has a blue bum where he has sat down in blue anti foul paint dust. He'd make a great yard broom!! He was pristine white when he arrived. He has no problem ascending the steep ladder up to Olivia's deck for a bit of a sticky beak. It has taken me nearly a week to get over the feeling of vertigo when I step across the gap between the top step and the deck. Someone moved the steps a bit and there is an even wider gap now. No problem!!
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| Just Checking! |
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