Merry Christmas for tomorrow!!!

hope Santa spoils you

finished work...
sold both cars...
furniture and belongings stored...
have set up Skype...let us know if you are a Skype user
looking forward to the massive farewell party Sydney is throwing for us...Dec 31...fireworks
hate saying farewell...
still so busy...
Peter...going to miss the movies and nipping up to the shops for little odds and ends
Kylie...going to miss hot showers with plenty of water, ice creams and the internet
Both...going to miss our friends and family
still feels weird...
does not feel like we are about to leave...
very excited...

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Only 2 1/2 days of work left

We have made leaps and bounds with preparations this week...mainly due to the generous help of Anthony (thanks soooo much we really appreciate it).
The wind/water generator is connected and if the wind blows today (there isn't a breath at the moment!) it will be supplying us power.
Our inverter is connected, so I now have no excuse for my mobile not being charged!
All the electrical work is now finally finished!! No more cables to run and no more head upside down in the back storage room trying to reach a cable that we can't feed any further. Well not for a while anyway...
We have had log books and contact cards made. I have compiled and printed all the research I have been doing over the past year... places to see, things to do, customs and quarantine restrictions, medical lists, maps, recipes, budget calculation, provisioning and the list goes on.
So now we are just waiting on the desalination unit to arrive, another jib to be made, an addition to the biminy to stop the rain blowing into the cockpit, lots of food/supplies shopping to be done but we are still on track for departure on Boxing Day.

Thank you to everyone who came to our farewell party, it was great to catch up, say good bye and Merry Christmas.

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2 weeks to go!

There are now only two weeks until we leave, thats only 6 1/2 days of work (not that I'm counting). We are both a bit stressed out, there is alot still to be done. Peter has been working tirelessly on fitting all the additional things such as pressurized water, a hot water tank, wind generator and lots of other little things that I don't even know about yet. I've been organising lots of printing such as log books and radio log books, contact cards etc. + setting up this blog.

We are living on the boat now and yes everything is going well. Truthfully it doesn't feel much different to living at home on land. Maybe once we stop working and spend more time on the boat it will actually feel like we are living on a boat! Where we are currently moored we don't get alot of wash from boats so we don't rock around much.

We are both looking forward to catching up with everyone this Saturday at our farewell drinks.

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Living on Jura...soon

Our prepartions are moving along fast now, we have sold our house and will be moving onto Jura in a few weeks time. Jura is currently moored @ Cronulla.

This weeks preparations:
We have both informed our bosses that we will be leaving at the end of the year. (Only 7 1/2 weeks of work until we become professional bums!)
We have made arrangements for a shed for all our house furniture to be stored.
We are arranging the purchase of a watermaker and hot water system so that living on the yacht will be a little more comfortable :-)
We are measuring to finish off the window trims, installing netting on the bunk beds, making sheets for the beds, planning the trip down to Tasmania including when and where we will stop, and soooo many other little things.

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