CYCLONE WATCH...

CHALK

CHEESE!

G'day All,
 After 3 dayz of hard graft we are nearly ready 2 go and Cyclone Trevor haz us watching the 4 hourly tracking updates.
Long story short our window iz now open and we can leave Darwin heading for the King George River which is 3 dayz sailing from Darwin.
We had 2 put the yot ashore to complete a hull survey for insurance, this meant parking the yot on the beach at Fannie Bay. We spent the day scraping barnacles and acid washing the propz, rudders and shaftz. The hulls themselves now have zero barnacles.
It wasn't until the refloat that thingz got interesting!
The yot refloated no problems until the dinghy waz dumped by 3 big waves that basically sunk it.
OH SHIT!!!
The dinghy iz now upside down in the surf as the yot backs away from the shore. It took 2 hours with the cranes to secure the  now right way up dinghy to the back of the yot 4 the journey to Cullen Bay Marina to refuel, re water and now refloat the sunk dinghy.
It took Brad most of Friday to get the motor running again (monumental effort) but we lost a few essentials like anchors and flooring in the dinghy. That'll be taken care of when we go to Bunnings B4 we leave.
Troy haz finished hiz final distill so itz thyme 2 move the still and all itz equipment back aboard the yot. We are leaving Darwin with 40 litres of bourbon (DAMN!!) plus 10 litres of spirit 2 make Bradz cherry ripe bourbon and a few litres of Baileys.
As you can C the new stickers have arrived, and are now fitted to the recently painted transom (back bit) of the yot. They look fkkkn awesum! Itz only taken 2 years to get to this stage with the new yot.
 Worth the wait!
Anutha huge effort haz gone into getting the fridges up to speck with the evakool freezer to expensive 2 repair we set about rebuilding Dadz 110 litre Weaco unit. This freezer will be used to make 25 ice bottles that will be rotated through the now repaired 45 litre evakool icebox. This icebox survived the sinking of the last yot but lost itz lid, luckily I waz able 2 get a new one made by Evakool in Qld.
One more day of running around and we are out of here! just the sat phone and few more materials 2 collect.
Itz Thyme 2 Go!!
6pm on Saturday we pulled the anchor  said our final farewellz and set off, leaving Darwin behind us "finally".
Itz taken alot longer and heapz of dollars but the yot iz ready to tackle this really difficult stretch of spectacular coastline.
So until we have service again this iz Galleycat out of range for who knows how long.
After a 24 hour false start for bad weather we are finally under way leaving Charles Point behind us for 3 days of open water until we reach The King George River.
Ciao