Ocean View Marina
Samal Island, Davao
Philippines
This has been a hectic week since the kidnapping of the persons here in the marina. Our thoughts are with those who are missing but as with any tragedy life must go on. Security around the marina has been greatly upgraded and we also now have military personnel on the grounds 24/7.
The absence of Kjarten, the yard manager, who was one of those taken, has left a large hole in the overall operation of the marina especially the boat yard section. The workers don't seem as motivated without his supervision so we have decided to scale back on the amount of work that will be done during our haul out and the brunt of it will fall to Kathy and I.
Work has started with the removal of the boom for painting but now we will no longer pull the mast for paint. We had workers start the removal of bottom paint but after observing to many breaks I have now taken on that job. Following that the important jobs will be the new rigging and rebuilding the seacocks and inspection of the thru hulls. We just had news from a friend who owns a sistership though a year newer that just had a thru hull failure. Luckily they were aboard and not in danger of sinking. Our inspection of thru hulls had been planned for this haul out but having a friend experience a failure makes one realize how important this can be.
So our work will continue along with positive thoughts for our missing friends.
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