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| My Own Stupid Fault |
Its the beginning of May 2016 and we return for our last and extended sojourn in the Golfe de St Tropez. The plan was to recommission the boat, have a few weeks test sailing and checkouts before handing Grace over to our delivery crew for the 1900 nautical mile journey back to The Solent.
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| Bugger |
We loaded the car with a new 3D lightweight tender, second hand Honda 4 stroke outboard purchased off eBay, more tools, bedding, the contents of a small IKEA's kitchen dept and a home made wooden plank!
All was going well until a blow-out just south of Lyon. Turns out this particular profile BMW tyre is rare in France and we lost a couple of days waiting. To be honest we had adopted a flexible mindset that made this wait not too frustrating. I knew we were in for some curved balls, the first one we dealt ourselves by setting out with marginal rubber.
Par for the course....
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| Grace's First Temporary Home at SMN |
By now Grace was back in the water temporarily on SMN's walk ashore pontoons where we were able to load all our stuff and stock the boat up for the first time.
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| Home in PG2 Port Grimaud |
After a short week getting things together at SMN we moved the boat a little deeper into Port Grimaud proper which became our base for the test sails.
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| Another day, another bay in St Tropez |
Some video taken on a test sail with 24 knts of wind on a reach. Grace is very stable and sails brilliantly on auto-helm with zero fuss.
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