First preparations for the Atlantic Crossing and leaving TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - Ep.01

Welcome on board of Fortuna. We have been living for the last two months in the Herzliya Marina close to Tel Aviv Israel but now we are ready to start sailing season 2020 and finally leave harbor again. We have still a lot of boat work to do but first thing we're going to the fueling station to fuel up for our first passage to Larnaca, Cyprus. So we fueled up Fortuna and now we go to see a locksmith to bring our life ring from the left side to the right side in order to make space for the life raft which we might need or which we should have for the Atlantic crossing in November. Hopefully we don't need it so fingers crossed. Because the sparks can do some rust. I know. So the idea is to first remove the mount then polish the steel and finally fix the mount on the other side. We are back in our sailing and we are super happy with the work of the locksmith and while we were at the workshop we also managed to meet a sail expert and together with him we looked at our mainsail and at our genoa and decided it was time to redo our uv protection on the mainsail. So the work for today is not yet done we will go back out and take down the mainsail so we can give it back to the workshop and they will apply the new uv protection. It was a very long day on Fortuna but we managed to tick off three tasks from our to-do list. The next day graced us again with sun so we decided it was time to tackle our leaky window but first a happy breakfast to start the day right. The time came for Michael to venture outside and fix the leak on the window. In the meantime Greta decided it was time to reorganize storage which became more time consuming than thought. Longer than expected it's like a huge tetris game to try to fit all your groceries in there but I try to find a way that will work also in the future especially on the passages that we're going to do as there will be a lot more this year than last year as we want to prepare as much as possible for the Atlantic crossing in November. I just finished in time to go up now to help Michael with the window sealing that we're trying to replace on our main window here in the galley. He has spent the last hours ripping out the old seal which means first he cut most of the seal out which was possible then he ripped it out and then he used a screwdriver to scratch out everything that's still in there and now that all the old sealing is removed you can finally apply the new sealing and hopefully we don't have any water in the gallery anymore. so Good morning everyone! It has been a very very stormy night and it's still shaking us around but on the other side it was raining the whole night and our newly made window seal is perfectly holding so that was actually a very nice surprise this morning. So we'll be working mainly on the boat and the first thing we are doing today is looking at the solar panel that we lost to see what we actually had to then be able to calculate what we will need in the future. It seems like that the wind has suddenly calmed down so we decided this is our chance to hiss our newly fixed mainsail. Yeah so tomorrow at around seven the coast guard will come and we will finalize all the documents and then we are ready to go. So one last night going to bed now. Thanks for watching and tuning in we hope you enjoyed our first episode and subscribe and like share it always share it please see you next time