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relaunched daily, and Bob was busy on another contract which, understandably, he wanted to finish before he started Leonie. Being in Greece is a bittersweet experience. The
apartment was on the beach, the days were sunny and warm and Leonie was nearby, but we felt a million miles away from our floating home. We cleared out a lot of our stuff and put it into storage
to give Bob space to work. We discovered 12 cracked oak frames and Bob later uncovered another six when he began dismantling the portside cockpit. To stop the rain leaking in after she was damaged,
Leonie had been covered and unaired. she was mouldy and stinking so cleaning and painting her interior was
the next task. Leonie was out of the water and, being a wooden
boat, in danger of opening up in the hot sun. We were grateful when Yannis, the yard owner, said Leonie could move into the shed. Bob started work the next day and we moved back
onto Leonie a week later as staying ashore was eating up our hard earned savings. It’s not easy living on a small boat in a hot dusty shed, with no water or gas to cook with, especially at 4pm when the yard lads start up their daily earsplitting metal grinding work. It didn’t help when Bob dismantled the floor to fix
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the broken frames behind the seats. We had to sidestep several metal braces and live with even more dust. With no floor and nowhere to sit we were overjoyed to meet up with south Hams friends Guy and Chloe savage and their 18-month-old son Logan who are spending the summer cruising the islands in their 40foot Jeanneau yacht. They took us off for an
overnight sail and it was heaven to anchor off a quiet, pretty town in the Ambracian Gulf surrounded by the sparkling Mediterranean sea and distant mountains and forget about living in a shed for a while. Knowing it would take Bob a
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couple of weeks to fix the interior broken frames we bit the bullet and rented a cheap apartment in Preveza, the small city which lies opposite Aktio at the mouth of the gulf. It has bare lightbulbs, is damp, badly equipped and the fridge has just packed up but it is spacious, has a floor, cooker, a huge sofa and wifi. There is still lots of specialist
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work on Leonie to be done and we will keep busy with general maintenance. Hopefully by the end of July
Leonie will be as good as before, if not better and we will leave the cramped yard and sail out into the wide open Mediterranean sea.
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