This photo-page covers our nautical activities for 2025.
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Narrative accompanying our 2025 pictures above - Starting at the top left-hand corner...
The winter 2024/25 was the second one that Ngahue IV spent 'inside' with Aqualift in Nieuwpoort. The two other HR53s, (Sophia and Anna II, formerly Mr Chr. Rassy's Bamsen) decided to respectively stay in the water and move to another Aqualift facility. Thus Ngahue IV was surrounded by a pair of Brooms (no, not the cleaning type, but a UK brand of solid motor boats). Again, a fair amount of work was again spent looking after the teak deck and cleaning up the interiour and renewing essential safety equipment for which multiple parcels arrived from HR Parts and George Kniest in the Netherlands. And starting in January the lengthy and precise task of correcting Ngahue's 150-plus British Admiralty charts started. Admittedly downloading (but paying for) a new electronic chart for the plotter is a lot easier!
Early January is New Year reception time: we elected to attend the HRC reception in Rotterdam!
Ngahue IV needed to be ready for launching in early May 2025 in order to attend two appointments abroad...
... this page will be added to throughout the course of 2025
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