Progress
Today has been less certain when it comes to rain than we had hoped. However, this morning we sanded the masts with 400 grit, then washed and dried them. In the end we waited until 3pm for painting in the hope of more certainty about it staying dry. This time
Plans
Tuesday was the last day of our holiday and so was always going to be busy packing up all the tools and materials that we have been using for just over two weeks. However, our biggest decision and challenge was where do go next with the painting of our masts.
Progress
Jane has now filled all the areas of the main and mizzen masts where we have removed corrosion. The plan is to sand the filler and then put the 2 part undercoat on tomorrow. Meanwhile I removed all the fittings from the mizzen boom (we have a new main boom)
Dinghy
We used the excuse of wanting the mast epoxy primer to full cure before using the filler to go out in the Dinghy again. So a very, very early start (alarms off at 7:30am and straight out as soon as we could to catch the falling tide out to
Progress
After getting exhausted yesterday with the epic sand and first coat of epoxy primer on both masts (see Masts are epoxy primed!) today needed to be a lot more gentle. So we got up late, with plans for some nice brunch, but by the time it gets to 1pm is
Sailing
We have really enjoyed watching Peter Lawless prepare his Rival 41 for sailing around the world singlehanded non stop (aiming to be the first Irishman to do so). Here is his departure video You can track his progress from here: Live Tracker
Environmental
Just emptied the wee bottles of both composting toilets. Second time this holiday. So we seem to be pretty consistent at filling 2 bottles a week. Not had to empty either toilet of solids and they are nowhere near full. We don't tend to use the clubhouse toilets
Progress
Today, August became my busiest month yet :-) Also the number of visitors for 2021 has now exceeded the number of page views for 2020 (we passed double the number of views quite a while back). We also have more than 140 people following in various ways - welcome to
Progress
Today has been long and hard work. However, we have managed to sand/grind, wash, clean with acetone and then paint with Epoxy Primer both our masts. Part of the challenge is that for the primer to stick to aluminium you have to paint very quickly after sanding. At least
Plans
With a beautiful day we had a nice slow morning with family and then got back to preparing our main and mizzen masts for painting (well we also washed the dinghy and equipment). We now have all the wiring out of the main mast. We have put messenger lines in
Environmental
Yesterday we had family with us. So we went on an epic dinghy ride in the afternoon. It would have worked better with a high tide that was a couple of hours earlier. Anyway we set off towards Puffin Island. The electric ePropulsion motor again worked faultlessly. I was fooled
Dinghy
We have done a lot of thinking about our foredeck (mostly related to anchoring, sail plan and dinghy storage). During one of the lockdowns we did some thinking about how to use the forecabin beyond the anchoring plans in terms of layout. We checked a lot of those measurements when
