Update

It looks like we are actually on track to get away for Xmas. Wonders will never cease.

Just one coat of varnish to go on the starboard cabin side, transom is done and lettering is fitted (just need to trim the excess bedding compound and will the post a pic), oil changes done, zinc has been replaced (thanks Jason!), even serviced the outboard. Just need to reassemble the reefing line turning blocks on the main boom and that is all the "must do" jobs done.

Very chuffed to get one minor job completed; ever since we left California I was unable to get data from our NMEA bus out to the nav computer. Finally decided to ditch the $300 serial-to-USB converter I got sold in the U.S. and replace it with a $50 one from Dick Smith's, and presto! Now have all my nav data coming through on the nav computer, including AIS targets and all that other good stuff us SailNerds love.