Right, now where was I on the relaxing, fun, cruising life we are supposed to be having…?

Oh, that's right, on the hard in a yard. So the dusty hot, frustrating part continues. We've now got both propellers shafts off because of squealing incorrect (?) gaskets and a myriad of other small jobs and some larger ones partly underway. I now can speak "yard-speak":

"I'll be there at 3 o'clock" means "I'll be there at 11 o' clock in two days"

"I'll be back tomorrow to finish up" means "I'm off to work on another boat and you won't see me for 4 days"

"You can only have blue, black or red antifoul" means "You can actually have the grey colour you wanted".

There are a few others but I'm sure you get the idea.

I amused myself for a few days while we waited for people to show up by streaming BBC1 and watching the Jubilee celebrations. I'm hoping the next news is back in the water news. I think I've said that before. Apparently this Friday…………..

The task of finding folding aluminium directors chairs did not go well. No such thing in Didim. What I had thought were loads of furniture stores in the main street upon closer inspection turned out to be other sorts of stores where the staff take out lots of furniture to sit on outside and it looks like a display of chairs etc. I have someone looking out for me. it's next to impossible to import things like this into Turkiye due to delays, duty and customs.

We are back in the water! A massive flurry of last minute activity and people everywhere. Where we should have been calmly inflating fenders and all nice and ready we found ourselves in a mad panic as the splash time was brought forward by an hour and a half! We took a run around the bay to test systems and found the squeal in the port prop shaft is still there despite all the taking out and replacing gaskets…….. Also the water make has turned it's toes up and the air con still has not got a proper fix in sight. We still (now Monday) have guys on board resealing all the AC joins - a lot of them. Should have been done much earlier. Peter is fault finding the water maker with the phone help of a technician in Kos. The joys of boat ownership.

Big drama on Sunday - someone left both engine bilge hoses bent up out of the way and let go the air con water into the bilges so of course eventually one came on but couldn't suck up the fluid and continued to run dry. Luckily Peter and I were onboard. The pump would have run till it caught fire and burned the marina down. Nothing more flammable than fibreglass boats with full fuel tanks all lined up in a marina.

We'll get out there one day. Entre Nous is feeling more like a house than something that moves.