Up from the grave...

Spirit of Nami Nami, the 60ft, 30 tonne ketch was finally raised in the early hours of Saturday morning from where she had sunk and lay submerged alongside the attenuator last week.  The salvage team worked all night and she now sits forlornly on the hard stand at Ashby's boatyard.  It appears that she dragged her mooring and, after hitting several other vessels, crashed into the marina pier stern first then swung side on and within an hour was holed and sunk.

Don, who lived aboard is not insured, but has a number of mates around Opua who have pledged to get his boat back in the water... must have been a strongly constructed craft (Cedar core woven through with glass?)as she has sustained surprisingly little damage compared to Sala which looks like will be written off.

Quiet day today with showers, southerlies and grey skies... managed to get the original solar panel reconnected but little sun to test it!  It should give another 50w  and a 25% increase to my 'off-grid' capacity.  As they say... we shall see!