Winter job list 2024-2025

Any updates in red.. priority jobs in bold..

  1. Fit the chunkier cleat bought at Widley boat jumble (in 2014!) on the fore deck - low priority

  2. Fit mid-ship cleats  - low priority

  3. Navigation lights - low priority

  4. Bilge pump(s??) - was going to be the Winter '22/'23 main project but I ran out of time.

  5. Fit anchor chain hawse pipe - low priority

  6. The gel coat is original but is getting thin to non-existent in places - I will not paint her (that way lies madness) but I do need to stop further UV damage to places where it is thin - last winter ('22/'23) I roughly colour matched some off the shelf external paint and patched some of the worst spots as an experiment - it has worked a treat, so I will do the rest this winter...


  7. Titivate the tender - just needs a few patches of paint redoing - she's lasted so well this summer after that major overhaul last winter, very pleased.

  8. New washboards - maybe a single board instead of two?

  9. I was looking at the cabin wiring the other day and while it all works, and is mostly tucked away, neat it isn't - some ducting perhaps, and I need to label it better in the switch box..

  10. Standing rigging check - this was last done in July 2013, but she's not had heavy usage in the interim; we had one year not in use (COVID), and one year where we only had half  season (ditto), so it may not really need doing this year - I will give it a good check though, particularly the forestay as that always gets a hammering when you have a roller furler

    For reference:

    • Replaced 2 cap shrouds, and 2 pairs of lower shrouds, in 4mm 1/19 stainless steel wire with new 5/16th rigging screws (Swage stud to Fork) and new swage eyes.
    • Replaced the split backstay in 4mm 1/19 stainless steel wire using a triangular plate with new bottle screw and new eyes and forks
    • Replaced the forestay in 6mm 1/19 stainless steel wire (the fitting on the lower part of the roller furling needs a swaged eye with a diameter of 12mm which is only available to fit 6mm wire. ) with new eye at the top of the forestay and new stud or bottle screw at the lower end.
Regular/annual items:
  1. Install temporary winter cockpit locker lids and bring proper ones home to keep out of the winter weather; ditto tiller - locker lids done
  2. Rub down and coat of paint (as needed) - 
    • locker lids - to do
    • Wash boards to do - gave them one coat already but they'll need another before she goes back in..
    • Tiller pilot support - to do
    • Tiller pilot clip rest - to do
  3. Rub down and coat of wood preservative or varnish (as needed).
    • cockpit board
    • outboard pad
    • rubbing strakes
    • hand rails
    • tiller
  4. Antifoul
  5. Service outboard
  6. Service Life Jackets
  7. Pick up chain:
    • I 'end for ended' the chain (bought 2016), swapped it round so the old end is new beginning and vice versa '22/'23.
    • Replaced the pick up buoy itself  with a spare I had in the garage '22/'23.
    • new shackle between pickup buoy and chain '22/'23.
    • new shackle between chain and swivel, '23/'24
    • swivel replaced '23/'24
    • shackle for swivel to mooring buoy needs replacing
  8. Pressure wash her bottom - done
  9. Pre launch wash and Oxalic

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