Midsummer Update - 2024
Drew Korek has spent another year going back and forth between Canada and Kenya to work on the schooner Midsummer. It has been both a challenging year, but also a successful one.
He has managed to get the engine working, the sails completed, repair the damage from a ferry that took out several of her stanchions during rough weather, and almost complete the deck. Then the water pump died and drowned the engine and so a new engine was sought and found in Germany…with an extravagant expense to ship it to Mombasa.
Working in Africa means it has taken longer than expected to get all the work done - and it has been very costly to go back and forth and to ship materials and parts that cannot be purchased in Kenya. Despite all that, Drew is still hoping to get the job done, carry out sea trials, and then sail her to the Mediterranean in the Spring, (fingers crossed) with the hope of getting her ocean worthy before a long-trip across the Atlantic. At least that is the current plan.
The before and after shots of the deck really show the amount of work that it has taken to clean, prep and restore the wood on this elegant ship! Well done Drew and the Kenya team!
