Caught Our First Fish This Year Outside The Parc De St Tropez.

Our second day sailing with Nicolzs and Kristina was another great day and we anchored at the Bastiee Blance. On your way back we fixed the fishing rod and managed to catch a nice Bonito, which Chris cut up and grilled on the BBQ. 

A Day Out With Nicolas And Kristina.

As we are now very delayed and still awaiting parts for the Volvo and Water Maker, we remain in the Bay Of St Tropes, even the f'cast states we will get bad weather (again) the coming days. But today we had a great day out with Nicolas and  Kristina to the Pampelone Beach, which is still (since 42 years) one of our favorites.

Some photos follow from our great sailing day, which we all enjoyed tremendously.

Back In The Water.

This is the continuation of our previous Blog (http://newdawnsailing.blogspot.fr/).

Today we finally got launched and are very happy to be afloat again. We still have the rigging, mast, tender, outboard and water maker to attend to and likely also the Volvo Engine and Westerbeke Generator, if we can get the energy to do this as well.

Some photos of this morning's launch:

We Are Back On Board And New Chain Installed, Etc..

After a small wonderful week in Beauvallon where we enjoyed the luxury of the house, garden, swimming pool, beach and friends, we drove back yesterday to Port Napoleon to continue the work on New Dawn.

Early today we finally received the new 104 m (12 m/m) anchor chain and we installed it. It weights about 500 kg together with the anchor and normal cost is € 1.550 but we negotiated it for € 925 (ex anchor), which is an excellent price.

Laying it out to install the metering marks.

The anchor chain locker well stored with the new chain.

New bilge pump parts arrived today, but it is not really working well yet? Simrad main navigation system repaired, but delayed in arriving and we worry why.

Getting Ready For Launch In Port Napoleon, France.

This is our new Blog for S/Y New Dawn, which is intended to cover our sailing and other items starting in August 2013. It follows our other Blog, which is now full.

The latest photos are these.

We are nearing the point of launch of New Dawn in Port Napoleon. Some spares and a new anchor chain are still awaited, but should soon arrive.