In Hong Kong commissioning "Pikorua"
Today is Saturday 23rd Nov '24 and we are in Hong Kong on a beautiful 2024 GranOcean 60 that we are delivering to Sydney. We have been here for just over 2 weeks now. We are tied up to a barge in Kwun Tong typhoon shelter which is along side the old Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong. We don't have the luxury of a "normal" marina as in the western world, no power or water connection and a very large construction site 200m away bang poles into the ground all day! The only place to tie a tender to if we go ashore is a concrete wall covered in barnacles, not a good match with inflatable tubes so we have to use the local sanpan (water taxi) whenever we want to go ashore. Commissioning any newly launched boat always has a long the list of jobs to get ready for the maiden voyage. It seems you tick jobs off the list and all of a sudden there are replacements at the bottom of the list! We are now at a stage where virtually everything has been ticked off...