Sailing the Oceanis 40 CC to craning

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Leaving again! 

Yesterday we left again! 
This time we left Aveyron. 
We packed everything we needed to live in the boat as well as all the necessary equipement to renovate the boat. 


Our crew

We took the parents with us. Free manpower :) but mainly a lot of knowledge as Nico's dad sailed for years and is a great mechanic. 
So it was altogether a car and a camping van. 





Craning our sailboat


We headed back to Narbonne Plage to sail the boat to Gruissan the next morning for the craning of the boat.

It took us 1h45 mn to get to Gruissan. 

It was freezing cold. The owner of the boat took us there, but left the helm to Nico once we arrived the port. 



The Camping van was already there. It takes 15 mn to get there by car. 

Once you arrive, you put some protection sheets onto the straps and there you go, you get off the boat, it's immediately lifted up and brought to your parking spot. 

Then they set the sailboat onto supports. 



That's it. 

You get a ladder to access your boat. 



We only had 3 days to work on the boat (at that time, we finally extended) so we started cleaning the boat right away. No time to take pictures of the Oceanis 40 CC Clipper. 

The owner does the careening once a year. He did it last June 2024. 
The hull was in perfect condition. The anti-fouling (eroding one) worked wonder. It's a type of anti-fouling you need to redo once every 2 years. 
But we decided to redo it this year as well. 




Surprises

Last minute surprises... 
  • When we sailed the boat today, the bow thruster didn't work!! One more thing to fix. 

  • We found out the boat wasn't year 2000. But it is a 2000 model constructed in 1999. But it was indeed launched in 2000. (so we got the wrong insurance quotes)

  • We found out the boat was a CLIPPER, and not a standard version, which is nice. It was (at the time) better equipped. More chic as well. 






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