Then we rested, played, fished and dived and enjoyed the beautiful Whitsunday Islands. Fast forward to 2022 and both Rachel and I had spent two years recovering from various accidents that left us with broken legs, ankles and ribs, several plates and screws between us and Kiarani was not getting her proper use or maintenance. Xmas of 2023, we pulled her from the water with object of doing all those little things that wooden boats need doing to them, we put her up on the hard in Edges Boat Yard and promised to get to her after Xmas and New Years was over. Then I had yet another accident and tore the femur muscle and damaged the femoral nerve in my right leg, we also decided to sell our home and try and get something a little bigger for our dogs to run around in (we breed English Bulldogs) and eventually settled on a lovely house with a massive shed in Home Hill, an hour south of Townsville and two 1/2 hours north of Airlie.

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Yep, that was an issue! a new to us house requiring work and a two 1/2-hour haul to the boat yard. Yes, you guessed it the work on the boat kept getting put off.  So very dumb of me and I knew better. When I finally got to the boat, I discovered all manner of issues not the least of which, was a leak in the roof near the exhaust stack which had polluted the roof in a major way causing rot all over the dam place……sigh.. so, we started the next round of repairs.