A picture post of our trip to the shipyard

A quick weekend to the yard just over the Belgian border started early Friday morning when we left our harbour at 07:00. I'll fill in the details later, but we just wanted to paint the hull, especially around the water line. It had suffered so much damage from the harsh winter, so a weekend out of the water was just what was needed. The pictures tell their own story...I hope!

The Ghent-Terneuzen Canal was like a millpond
So off we went
The yard at Zelzate is mostly for commercials, but yachts
are stored there over the winter too
The Hennie H in dry dock just before we started painting
We had a wonderful show of passing traffic
And a nice view off the back deck
Looking forward while the dock dried out
And two days later, a nice gleaming black hull
Just as we wanted it
The dock being sunk again on Monday morning
The water is pumped into cavities below the bottom
to push it down
Back at our berth by 11:00
One smart little barge again

This video is for Carol Palin, so she can see how the dry dock is 'sunk' by flooding it.
And now I have to scoot back to Rotterdam to work, so have a great week, allemaal!