Songbird, our old home, is back on the market, now under Danish flag.

Bittersweet looking at the photos. We've lost touch with the current owner after some weird emails, but it looks like he took reasonable care of the boat. There's some changes, but a lot of our old stuff is still there, even the same spray bottles under the companionway steps :)

There's a new chartplotter and radar installed, which is good, and an offset mounted hydrovane windsteering which didn't really fit, but at least it looks like the swim-ladder is still usable.

Seems the good old Volvo Perkins Prima is still ticking too.

Sad to see the cockpit varnish hasn't been maintained. I spent a lot of work restoring that. Oh well.

Probably still a great boat!

https://www.yacht.de/en/yachtmarkt/gebrauchtboote/boot/655709/

#Sailing #Songbird #CruisingLife

Bavaria 40 Ocean | YACHT

What it's supposed to look like.

NB: There are some deeply confused sailors that think exterior teak trim should be grey and sad, but they are utterly wrong.

#Teak #Varnish #BoatMaintenance

@yngmar slightly unrelated to your beautiful work with the teak wood, there, but is pino named after this jp ice cream?
@redmp How would I know? Confusing me with someone? :)
@yngmar ah yes... yes, i am... sorry, i clearly should not social media while ushering children to school... enjoy your homesteading :)

@yngmar Do you two think you will do it again someday? If we chose to, it may be coastal hopping from restaurant to restaurant, or something easy. No more 7m seas and wicked storms. The call of the sea has faded somewhat.

Is that an MD2030? 😬

@giantspacesquid Doubt it. Life isn't long enough. We were lucky to do it at all. Moved on to new things.

Would like to teach it to #knirps though. Maybe a dinghy on a local lake :)

Edit: It's an MD22, which is really a Perkins Prima M50 with green paint.

@yngmar What a beautiful boat!
@DazeEnd Thanks, I've put a lot of work into it and it was our home and took us on adventures for many years :)