Packing

We are at home, cleaning the house and packing the car. The car, a Mercedes B200, is new to us and we are continuing to find new places to store small items. A long thin aerial is hidden in the bodywork in front of the starboard rear light for example. However even with this help the car will be very full because we are transporting a new liferaft to Sweden. The old raft had been poorly serviced and could have killed us in four different ways if we had used it. It looks like no Belgian beer supplies this year - sob.
Once in Nykoping, there is a long list of work awaiting us:- service seacocks and other routine tasks, fit new aerial, rejig exhaust system, modify weather station, reduce pitch of propellor ( all of five minutes for the last item).
Once launched there is a second programme, tune mast, fit boom, sails lazy jacks, get provisions and so on before we can get off to Stockholm for the Early Music Festival starting 4th June.
On the way we are stopping in Amsterdam for five nights to visit Art Galleries. Ironically our choice of hotel is governed by car-parking charges. In central Amsterdam its 60 - 80 Euros/night. On the outskirts a more moderate 15.