An epic six months between posts. A lot has happened, but it would be foolish to try to cover it all, so I won’t try.
This week saw the start of dragon boat training for another year. The crew looks promising. We have eight training sessions; race day is the 28th of this month. Can’t believe it’s been a year since the last dragon boating – means it was this time last year that I mate Craig, and thus John, and thus got back into the sailing, and thus ended up buying Tracer.
Tracer has taken pretty much every spare minute for the last six months. She is nearing ‘completion’ now though, inasmuch as a boat is ever ‘complete’. Just a lick of paint and a piece of jib track and she is ready for sea trials. There’s still a lot to do but the rest of it is pretty much optional and I want to get at least some sailing out of her this summer. It’s been a lot of work and a great experience, doing her up.
Flying has taken a back seat to Tracer, and so has diving – apart from a few dives to inspect moorings and so forth. I did a crayfish dive up in Taranaki over christmas – bagged 3 – and will get doing a few more now I have a boat to dive from of course.
I think that most of the reason that I’ve been so lax about updating this is that life in NZ, at some point, ceased to be a holiday, and became more routine. This isn’t a bad thing – well, maybe it is and maybe it isn’t – but it’s certainly an inevitable thing. So I’m going to try using this blog less as a diary and more as a series of observations, and see if I can manage updates more frequently than biannually.
