Splashed!

We are so excited to finally be on our boat. We came here Tuesday afternoon. Varuna was out of the shed on its trailer and we moved in and got sorted. We had a very basic first meal onbord, but of course the best one ever.

The following morning we were ready at 7 am, when the crane and the truck came to lift Varuna and drive it down to Naestved harbour. Everything went great and she was in the water – floating.

It was a beautiful day with really warm weather and no wind. We were so lucky!

Mast and boom came on and lucky us, the bridge opened and we could go through and out to Karrebaeksminde. Staffan went with Niels, the previous owner while Eva went provisioning.

When Eva was back and had stored everything, our friends had arrived in Naestved by train, so she went to pick them up. We had a great dinner with them onboard, and immediately continued fixing things for us to get ready to leave.

Lovely gifts from our friends

Thursday morning we started with putting the head sail up. It looked like it has never been used, as it was bought last year.

Then we continued with the main sail. Both are furling, which makes it easy and convenient while sailing.

It was time for our test sail, and it went really well. We tried most of the systems onboard, and we are so happy.

It was our last day with the rental car, so Eva and our friend Debbie went provisioning for our trip while the guys worked on the boat.

We shared a beer with the previous owner, said good bye and had a celebratory dinner made on the Magma bbq!

Today is Friday and we are ready to leave if it wasn’t for the guy that we asked to install our AIS. He has had 4 month to do this, and he has not managed to finish it yet. A cable was missing, we provided that, software needed updating, took him 2 days, and now he says our antenna is not ok. To be continued…