D Day approaching

I spent an uncomfortable night on NJ last week - a howling gale on Tuesday night, so didn't get much sleep. I have fitted a second stern navigation light, as the standard one is obscured by the dinghy when it is hanging on the davits. It was very useful to have the wind generator pole as a convenient location, with the cable fed through a glad on the deck adjacent to the power feed through for the turbine. I had the two new service batteries delivered to the marina which worked out well, they are now in place and were charging up nicely when I left the boat. The new Fusion Marine TV works very well, and has a built in DVD player and can also work as a PVR if a USB flash drive is plugged in. The really great news is that there is only one job left on the TO DO list, this is the lift and power wash, and is booked for next Friday ( 13th ). While the boat is out of the water I will change the main hull, and bowthruster anodes, and give the Kiwi feathering propeller a good clean and grease. All the new charts have now arrived, and an assortment of pilots and tidal atlases ordered. We just need to make out an exhaustive list of items we want to take to the boat now - and find somewhere to stash everything! We have provisionally penciled in the 22nd April for departure, but this obviously depends on the weather.