Hey…we’re back on board Innocenti after nine months away. We are no longer home-owners. The only real estate we own is this 42-foot little piece of Aotearoa floating around in Malaysia. Let me attempt to summarise the goings-on of our time away in a single paragraph. Here goes….
We ran out money and couldn’t re-tennant the house, so decided to sell. We returned to NZ, and I went back to work as a fishery officer. Angus did yacht deliveries and boat work. It took 5 months for the house to sell (for less than we expected, but that’s another story). Loved having the family around. Christmas was fantastic. Celia (our eldest daughter) got engaged to Gregoire, who we met for the first time. We then landed a contract to deliver a 32m super yacht from Cape Town to Palma de Mallorca. I was the chef, Angus the captain. Three months and 6,300nm of Atlantic high adventure later, we made it to Palma. A short flight to Switzerland followed, where we stayed with Celia and GrΓ¨goire. Then there was the wedding ππ°π€΅ββ. It was a perfect day and a wonderful month spent in Europe before flying back to Malaysia three weeks ago. So that was nine months!
This is what the boat looked like when we arrived back. Generally, it was in good condition, as we had someone who came on board each week to run the engine, the water-maker and to run the fridge, but sitting in the warm, nutrient-filled water of Rebak Marina, stuff grows!
Five days out of the water with a team of painters, who scraped, sanded, antifouled, polished, and waxed and voila, this is what she looks like now.
We opted to pay to have the work done (such a treat!) because it is soooo hot here. It worked out to be about half the cost of having the work done in NZ. We did some inside jobs, like varnishing the bits inside that were looking tatty. We’re now ready to go exploring around here. It is nice to back within the cruising and live-aboard community here at Rebak.
Next stop will be Thailand, but when the season allows and the prevailing wind direction changes.
Cruising Innocenti 
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