She's in the water!

Finally today we got the boat into the water! After all the waiting around, the crane arrived and we had very little time to paint the remaining hull spots where the supports had been with anti foul. The boat was lifted off the supports and it was a flurry of action. Shelly performed the ceremony with the breaking of the Bottle of Champers (which we had brought all the way from NZ, compliments of friends Robyn and Stuart) and a little speech. Then she was in the water with Vicko on board starting the engine. He stopped momentarily and waved his hands around frantically, then disappeared down stairs. A crease of the old worry line developed on my forrid, but then he came up with a beaming smile yelling in his broken english - "Its Ok, No leaks!"
He proceeded to drive Falshator out of the crane dock and turn her around and bring her in Bow in. In another flurry of action, the Mast was wheeled up beside the boat, a sling wrapped around it and within 5 mins the mast was in.
Shelly handed me another Bottle of the fizzy stuff with which I climbed on board, popped the cork and spilled some over Falshators Port and Starboard forward sides, -another thing we had to do according to Google. Then everyone on board including the Mast boys had a celebratory drink to the new boat.
We then had discussions with local Contractors on building the Solar Panel support off my drawings. Its proving to be a bit of a challenge with the language barrier and the fact that they hadn't built anything like it before. The area caters for the huge Charter business, so no need for Solar Panels and Water makers. Which by the way there is still no sign of the water maker or our Box with the Solar panels in it. We just have to adapt the Split philosophy on this- Hey, no stress, it will happen!

Ok, back to my pizza and the $3.00 bottle of red wine :)