Boat maintenance – Herrington Harbour - Hallberg Rassy 54 Cloudy Bay - Oct-Nov'19. Season19 Ep20

Annual maintenance prior to heading back to Caribbean. Changing skin fittings, new dinghy, adding vinyl stripes, changing hoses and faucets... and much much more. Early October, following our 4 months break from the boat, we travelled from our home in Europe back to Cloudy Bay in the Chesapeake. Before setting off southwards we had quite a list of maintenance and upgrades to do, given we may not get another good chance before New Zealand. The list included vinyl covering the blue strips, changing thru-hulls and hoses, bottoms painting, propeller & bow thruster service and rebuilding the hydraulic sail furling motors. A lot of the tasks were buying more spare parts, a Sailrite sewing machine and of course the usual unexpected purchases like a new dinghy and a replacement PC. Likewise, on the maintenance there were several unplanned things like changing the galley faucet, which became a monumental task for something so simple. And finally, food stocking up for our journey to Panama. It ended up taking us 6 very full weeks before we finally bid farewell to our Herrington friends, just as winter weather arrived. 11 Oct - 20 Nov 2019