You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to maintain a blog in the middle of the Marlborough Sounds on a boat with no electricity and no Wifi.
It was my New Year’s resolution to organize myself blogwise. I still have no blog roll, no links to my published material and it takes me ages to position a photograph. Truth be told, I’m not even sure why I’m doing it but I am determined to get my head around the blog thing because I do like posting my thoughts about food.
With that in mind – and knowing I was going to spend a few weeks afloat – I bought an Ipad and a wireless keyboard. I’ve spent most of my time since then trying to work out how to use it. The biggest hurdle has been trying to get photos from my camera into my blog – it seems I need a connector thing. However, today I think I’ve made a breakthrough by emailing myself a photo taken on my mobile phone, picking it up on my ipad and then posting it into my blog. Hopefully, it’s positioned below.
Taken from the shore, this is our boat, Rongotai. A Jack Cox designed sedan with kauri hull and mahogany topsides, she was launched in 1939 and saw service as a naval patrol boat during the Second World War. Rongotai is reputedly the only civilian boat in NZ to have dropped a depth charge during the war – an explosive event that nearly sank her.
We bought Rongotai in 1992 and we’ve spent every summer (bar one) on her since then. Always in the Marlborough Sounds.
Pass the Salt 
Hi
Loved the picture of your launch
My dad was Jack Cox who built her. He became a boat builder again after the war and lived at Whangaparaoa north of Auckland where he and Mum brought up 5 children (including me).
Cheers
Jill
We would love to know more about Jack Cox. I’ll send you an email and hopefully we can get in touch by phone. Thanks for your comment, Anna