The ferry journey to Trelleborg was troublefree and so was the road journey to Nykoping, if long and boring. We checked in to our hotel and of course went off to eat suchi at Kohiro, our favourite restaurant in Nykoping. Later we had a look at Badger but only next morning began the work of packing away the kit we had brought and then preparing her for sea.
This work was the normal round of antifouling, seacocks, anode checking, lubrication, mat preparation and so on. the only notable extra was painting a red line at water level in boot topooing. Ths involved much careful and not quite accurate applying and removal of masking tape with Lacoon like sticky bundles of used tape. We now have a different cradle with the result we could antifoul parts of Badger we have been unable to get at for years. I had rather underestimated the time this work would take so had to reschedule the launch and hotel accommodation with the result we stayed in three hotels all told. We also had a lovely evening with our dear friennds Martin and Maria Morris at their country home, saying hallo to Berty the robot mower as well.
Our launch on Monday went well and I motored round to Nykoping marina to finish fitting out while Kristin met me having driven the car round.
We had also reacquainted ourselves with the hotel and restaurant school being warmly greeted with the cry that "now summer is here". The food there and particularly the salads are worth coming a long distance to enjoy.
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