Spring refit and boat work on Leros island, Greece - New solar, bilge alarm and fridge (Ep 12)

We fly back to Leros island in Greece where we left Wishful Thinking for the European winter on the hard at Moor and Dock Boatyard. We get straight into boat work to prepare to launch her for our second sailing season. Below the waterline we remove rust on the keel, replace some thru hulls, fibreglass over some others and antifoul paint. We also service our engine, reseal our chain plates, upgrade our solar system, install a bilge alarm, wire in a new fridge/freezer and remove an old macerator... We agree to cat-sit Chicho, our friends' cat, and he keeps us company while we get our jobs done.

[@stevenplancich6449]

Glad to see all the Repairs/Improvements on “Off Season”👍 Continue to Stay Safe and Enjoy😎

[@sailingwishfulthinking]

Cheers Steven! 😊

[@jonesy1929]

Nice work Ryno glad to see your both well and living your dream 👍🏻 don’t stop mate

[@sailingwishfulthinking]

Cheers Jonesy! 🍻 Hope you're going well.

[@PaulBallard-ep4te]

Amazing incredible love it ❤

[@sailingwishfulthinking]

You are 😍

[@johnpaisley3728]

I think I know that cat! We keep our Dufour on Aegina during the winter and I did climb the ladder to the boat while it was on the hard last year and came face to face with a cat. Freaked me out. He jumped over to the boat next to us and disappeared but I couldn't figure out how he got onto our boat. Now I know. Regardless, always enjoy videos of people working on their boats. And I do like that design for the bilge alarm. I hope to have the same success installing one on our boat.

[@sailingwishfulthinking]

Haha it probably was the same cat! He was well known around the Aegina yard apparently and an expert climber 😅
Good luck with the bilge alarm install 👍

[@alicethecameltoe]

The kids have been looking at our world map - they're shocked it's taken you 'such a long time' to get from A to B, and are concerned about your Caribbean goal (me too, not going to lie) 😂

[@sailingwishfulthinking]

Haha please reassure the kids that we've been going slow on purpose because Greece is very nice, and we have plenty of time 😅

[@thalassaofipswichcorfu2840]

love the movie guys, hope youre both well and enjoying Albania. were back out on Monday

[@sailingwishfulthinking]

Thanks Amanda and Dick! Hope you enjoy the rest of your season 😊