Anchor's Aweigh

The weather has turned a corner in Fethiye. The pulse is quickening with spring around the corner. It seems to wake up the town, activity is returning to the streets, the storekeepers and stall vendors are painting and making neat, stocking the shelves. The 'Season' is about to start, and everywhere, people are preparing.

On Pavlov, we've been infected with the same fever. We're ready to take down the winter tent and open up our little world to the outside. The chain and anchor have been re-galvanised.

Pavlov's winter tent.

Megan, erstwhile First Mate and Admiral Below Decks, has a particular and fervoured relationship with the anchoring system. She owns that sucker, is she-devil boss of it. Anyway, she's been training the anchor chain into colourful submission, so that it will now tell her faithfully the depth of anchor deployed.

Megan's depth scheme

Chain boss and First Lord Admiral

The saloon cushions have all been re-upholstered, new mattresses fitted to the front and rear  berths.

New Lounge

The mast has been taken down so that all the standing rigging and much of the electrical wiring in the mast can be replaced. It was an excited crew that tied Pavlov up to the main dock so that we could bring in a crane to do the take-down.

Preparing for lift off!

Our rigging crew.

Look what I can lift!

Down she goes

Ready to be re-rigged.

The naked Pavlov

We've also fitted some new creature comforts inside. LED TV (wired up to the computer network) with a nifty arm so we can swing it out of the way.

Pavlov's new media centre.

Our list is about done (at least for now, but there is a new list waiting in the wings!!) . We have a pretty long string of guests visiting this year, starting with Michelle in mid-April. That means some new linen and work to make the boat look really ship shape. 

Everyone's 'appy when the admiral is 'appy.

The new sails arrive next week, so after they're fitted and commissioned, we'll probably take a sea trial down to Gorkova Roads, a fascinating anchorage about 100nm down the Turkish coast.

Life is good.