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
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
