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
Progress
In honour of visitors (always a good incentive to sort things out) we have done a whole lot of tidying up and sorting out. So we no longer have piles of old bolts and screws in the cockpit and we can see what is on the chart table (we can
Electric
Today has included a huge amount of lifting and moving. A large part of that was lifting all 8 batteries on board. You can see the preparation for this in Low down progress First battery bank has a nearly finished box (needs final epoxy coating and painting plus a lid)
Progress
Following Building a “sofa” today I did some finishing off. The back doesn't go so high (more storage space to come) and one end of it is now retained (the other end will have some form of retainer, maybe elastic, when we figure it out). There is now
Plans
Our first fully dry day for what seems like forever and what a difference it has made!! Our last work on the mast was in Slow progress preparing the Main mast for refurbishment, plus tangs continue Today the first task was to try to get the mast foot off. We
Cooking
Today (Saturday) was forecast to be heavy rain all day. So we started with a duvet morning which was very welcome. After lunch we did a shopping trip to Aldi. Then the only practical progress was to improve the double (pullman style) bed in the aft cabin. So the bed
Progress
No progress yesterday as we went to a distant family funeral. Then today has been one of those days where you plan one thing and end up doing something completely different. Jane was going to work on mast tangs and I was going to work on the main mast. However,
Progress
Today has mostly alternated between rain and drizzle which has dampened progress. Most of the jobs inside are still easier when we can do the timber cutting and sanding outside. So when we could, Jane continued with the work on the mizzen tangs while I started on the main mast.
Sailing
As we look at more of our worn out systems we see more places where we can replace deck hardware with Dyneema and Low Friction rings. The latest is our genoa tracks. Ours are the old style with a pin on the car. So they can only be adjusted when
Progress
The other day we made Lee Boards for our starboard saloon berth. Today we've started the process of making them adapt to their other role which is to be a backrest. It isn't finished yet. I need to find a way to retain the back rests
