Rolling up the Sleeves

The last week has been spent with Komale at her home in Lymington Yacht Haven.

Last Saturday night she made an appearance at the Yacht Haven berth holders' party. She displayed excellent social skills and generated a lot of interest for the project. Our efforts at the moment are on getting the project going and raising money to cover project costs, so it is great to have opportunities like this to keep the charitable fundraising going; so far we have raised over £1,000.

C&J Marine have very kindly fitted Komale out with a fantastic new mattress. It is so clean at the moment that we are nervous of sleeping on it. We are very grateful to them for it.

Ben Fox from the marina escorted us into the Solent Hamish's Mum Angela, our chief snapper, to get some good quality photos of the boat from the water. It turns out that Ben is a computing ninja and has kindly offered to cast an eye over our rowforheroes.com website.

We also met up with Mike Devine, one of Lymington's finest marine electricians, and he gave Komale's electrics a once over. After much discussion and head scratching (at least on our behalf) Mike advised us to swap our GPS for a GPS plotter and also to get our hands on an AIS transponder system, which is a way of monitoring other boats and sending information to them without radar. Finally, of course, we discussed Hamish's daily requirement of audiological stimulation from Radio 4 and Nick's essential relaxation courtesy of Classic FM, plus an aggressive D.I.S.C.O rig set up.

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All things considered, things are progressing well.