Winter job list 2025-2026

 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??)

  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 - 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 need to do some more...


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

  8. 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..

  9. 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.

  10. Boom/sail cover may need replacing - I bought it in 2019, and compared with the previous one it is in far better condition than the other one was at the same age. The previous one lasted 6 years, this one is 6 years old this year, albeit we had a year of Covid where it didn't get a lot of UV
    Regular/annual items:
    1. Install temporary winter cockpit locker lids and bring proper ones home to keep out of the winter weather; ditto tiller
    2. Rub down and coat of paint (as needed) - 
      • locker lids
      • Wash boards
      • Tiller pilot support.
      • Tiller pilot clip rest
      • Cockpit hatch cover
      • Forward hatch cover
      • Tender
    3. Rub down and coat of wood preservative or varnish (as needed).
      • cockpit board
      • outboard pad
      • rubbing strakes
      • hand rails
      • tiller
    4. Antifoul - Cruising Performer last year and one coat as an experiment.. did it work?!

    5. Service outboard
    6. Service Life Jackets
    7. Pick up chain:
      • '22/'23 - I 'end for ended' the chain (which was 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.
      • '23/'24 - new shackle between chain and swivel, 
      • '23/'24 - swivel replaced 
      • '24/'25 - shackle for swivel to mooring buoy replaced 
    8. Pressure wash her bottom
    9. Pre launch wash and Oxalic

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