Well it has started again... One of the things Caju warned us about with Australian Yachties should have sent shivers down my spine - "they all want to renovate their boats"..... why should that bother me with a wife like Karen and our track record...... We have a perfectly good boat - why change it?

Well I should have listened to my soul when I started missing Bunnings. In Las Palmas I found King Hogar - a poor imitation of Bunnings but good enough to buy some chandlery - a dinghy anchor and a swivel and components for renovating.

To start with I bought harmless stuff - components for the best gangplank in the marina - check it out...



Ignore the fat boy in the bad glasses - it can even been raised at night....


But then Karen snuck in with a request for an extra shelf - and no sooner had I bought shelf and shelf bracket and then ocean restraints and it was full on....


I leave the ocean restraints on in harbour because if I get hold of the cook books I make a damn fine meal - and if I keep that up I will have to go 50/50 in the cooking - not my dream retirement.. 

But wait Karen is now wanting lazy susans, changing the placement of the bin, solar hot water and no doubt we will have a new double garasge in the basement