Pius, a special floating house

November 4th, hauled in Genova Sestri for a big month of works. Sailing fast from Cogolin to escape from a F8 SW,  I reached the yard in Genova Sestri. Pius was longer than the quayside ! :/ We began with the hull, sanding 15 years of antifouling. My friend Bepsi is #1 Then we started working on the powerful VOLVO Penta TAMD 41, 6 cylinder Turbo compressed. You never know how a boat has been maintained previously so I decided to change: - Raiser - Engine oil exchanger - Engine water exchanger - Engine turbo air intercooler - Gearbox exchanger - Fisher Panda 8KW generator water exchanger - Cleaning and maintenance of the engine starter, power alternator 100A/24V and alternator 12V            Then we proceeded to filter the diesel from algae and bacteria for 6 hours, after leaving antibacterial in the tank for 24 hours.  After 15 years of use the Gori propeller did not want to break away from its shaft. She needed some sophisticated repair work...

Sailing from Portofino (Italy) to St.Tropez/Port Cros/Porquerolles (Fra). Portofino, a real pearl. Here we spent some days admiring the beautiful Italian towns of Portofino and Santa Margherita. After that - we set up sails heading west across the Gulf of Genoa, where weather is often unforeseeable but this time was really mild. Anna and Emma joined me in Cannes and finally we could share our family's floating house....here are scenes from the big party with Emma dancing (the beer bottle is empty)! The Sorba family joined us in Cogolin for a long weekend in Port Cros and Porquerolles. 22°C on November the 1st....great fun, sailing and biking!