Thoughts two weeks into the project

Currently, the alarm rings every morning at 7:30, on weekends at 8:00. The morning tasks have become a routine – getting up, eating oatmeal, packing the needed tools and parts into the bus and trying not to forget the food and snacks. Then the daily negotiation starts with the dogs, where we have to convince them that we are now allowed to leave the yard without them.

On the 20 minute drive to Bogense the first heated discussions begin. In the past days these could be about the new through holes and valves, the circulation pump repair and motor assembly or the all-time favourite, the septic tank. It often feels as if we have had these discussions a lot before, but new perspectives or information keep coming, making a reevaluation of our solutions necessary.

Arriving at the boat is always very special – the feeling is often a mixture between excitement about the tasks of the day and astonishment over the size of the boat and that this will be our home for the next many months to come.

As we have Désirée on land at the moment, the first jobs we have focused on are mostly related to the different fluids that we want to have inside the boat and the ones we definitely want to keep outside the boat. We have renewed some through hole fittings and some tubes that we can only get to while out of the water.

We find ourselves having some of the same thoughts and asking some of the same questions over and over again. These are:

• Where do we get part XY the fastest / the least cost intensive / at all?
• How can I get deeper into this compartment and will I ever get out of it?
• Where are the snacks?
• Where does this cable / hose / water come from and what does it want?
• Why has the frozen water in the bucket outside not turned back to fluid form for days now?
• Where does this bruise come from?
• Why is it snowing? Didn’t we just wear cool sunglasses an hour ago?

Eventually we make it through the day finishing many tasks and adding new ones to a seemingly never ending list. Tired and hungry we lock everything up and let the thoughts fade out to let them reappear the next day, just like we reappear at the boat.

We look forward to a new day tomorrow, with our newly found routine and a lot of problems that still need hopefully clever solutions!

God vind!
Liv and Paul