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
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
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,
