The weather is the usual bag of spanners we get at this time of the year so with long experience I always provide the Jolly Boys with a couple of dates so that we can shift if necessary, and so it more or less was this year. Forecasts were shabby for the first day so I shifted to the fall-back only to get up on the first day and the weather being nothing like was forecast a mere 12 hours before..
The phone started pinging from various Jolly Boys saying 'should we go ahead anyway' - so the plan was changed again, and a mere hour later we were on the boat prepping for the mast lift.
It was a good, fairly trouble free, lift as per the previous efforts (and as documented here [clicky]); the only niggle we had was the topping lift (which I use as a fail safe for the jib halyard) wrapped round the furler - but that was easily resolved, and if anything was a help as it kept the foil out of the way during the lift.. 😏
Nothing for it but to adjourn to the cabin and cockpit and drink beer* and eat pork pies and picked eggs in celebration.. good one!
Will get the sails on next time we have some decent weather..
*Appropriate libations were also made to boat and Neptune for the coming season.. 😀
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