What a year2020 was! Along with everybody else, we had plans cancelled, plans changed and general frustration.
We started the year out with some excitement buying a new boat. A Lagoon 630 motor yacht (yes, off to the dark side). It had been part of our long term plan to stay out on the water as long as possible and was brought forward by a deal from the factory that was a bit too good to pass up. So, the plan was to go back to Europe as planned in March and sail Chat Eau Bleu to Barcelona to be sold and then on up to Bordeaux to take delivery of the new one. On the day we were due to travel Peter was in hospital having a stent inserted in a 95% block in his main artery!! it was discovered when I booked us both in for a Coronary Calcium Score test. He didn’t want to go “waste of time and money, nothing wrong with me”. I scored 5 and he scored 800……….a guaranteed death sentence sometime during the next 12 months. Anyway that cancelled our trip along with Covid over the next week locking down the world. He has since lost 16 kilos and is very well now.
We stayed put in Brisbane and did a major renovation of our unit, walls, floors, windows, kitchen, bathrooms – everything. We how have. a proper home to come back to in future.
After a great deal of plan changing we shipped Chat Eau Bleu home from Turkey and she has just last week sold here. The market is very strong and we had an excellent contract before the transport ship even docked! A sad moment for us to wave goodbye after 7 years living and travelling on her.
We are now with one boat again which is a relief but still no real idea when we can get to her. Maybe post vaccine in April??????
In balance – the year hasn’t treated us too badly. I will be forever grateful for saving Peter’s life and that we did not experience separation from sick, isolated or dying relatives and it has been a bonus seeing more of our families than usual.