- Mastfoot/tabernacle - drilled out the lower bolt holes slightly, and gave it a coat of Hammerite
- Electrics - fitted cabin lights [clicky]
- Tidied up the tender seat repair from last year
- Repaired the strut on tender launching trolley and freed up the wheels - and a bigger bit of bodge'ry than the repair to the strut is harder to imagine..
- Painted the inside of tender [clicky]
- Replaced the cockpit hatches (again); poor preparation on my part meant the ones I made a couple of years ago split and de-laminated. Cut, test fitted, epoxied.. rubbed down, washed and one coat of paint..this was the major item in this winters refit, and was not without it's ups and downs! Started here [clicky] and finished here [clicky]
- Binoculars holder (they kept falling off the shelf!) made and fitted
- Tender rubbing strake needs repair/patched
- Rub down and coat of paint on the wash boards
- Rub down and coat of wood preservative on rubbing strakes / cockpit board / outboard pad / hand rails (as needed
- Anti-fouled
- Serviced Life Jackets
- New Windex fitted - time will tell on this one!
Monday, 1 May 2017
Completed job list - winter layover 2016/17
Purely for reference (mind like a sieve), I completed the following this winter just gone:
Saturday, 29 April 2017
Just visiting...
Well that was a bit interesting... so with a bank holiday weekend looming here in the UK, some long long hours at work, and not being on call, I went for the extra days holiday on Friday with a view to turning it into a four day'er and go sailing on the Friday..
Forecast the weekend was looking 'iffy, but Saturday was not really an option, Sunday looks atrocious, so Friday and Monday are sailing days - if it comes off.. except when I got on the water on Friday there wasn't a breath.. motored down to Marker to give it a chance, went backwards at 1.5 knots... gave up and was motoring for home when a sudden thought made me whip out the binoculars (which up until then I had been using to have a look at the seal colony on Hayling) and I could see that the visiting pontoon was empty..
Never having landed there before it was too good an opportunity to miss.. dug out the fenders, dug out a mooring line (all of this while steering with a foot 😀) came round the end of the pontoon and then did a ferry glide light as a feather onto the pontoon - good job... hopped on to the pontoon tied up, and then proceeded to clear the boat of bird cr*p.. before sitting in what passed for sunshine with beer, cigar, and watched the world go by... cracking! 😀
Going to have another go on Monday.. that's twice now with very little breeze, chance has got to go my way soon..
Log:
Distance: 4.32 (cumulative total in the mileage tab at the top)
Wind: F0 to fitful F1; every direction under the compass
Sail Plan: Full main and genoa
Speed: 5.4 / 2.5 all under motor
Forecast the weekend was looking 'iffy, but Saturday was not really an option, Sunday looks atrocious, so Friday and Monday are sailing days - if it comes off.. except when I got on the water on Friday there wasn't a breath.. motored down to Marker to give it a chance, went backwards at 1.5 knots... gave up and was motoring for home when a sudden thought made me whip out the binoculars (which up until then I had been using to have a look at the seal colony on Hayling) and I could see that the visiting pontoon was empty..
Never having landed there before it was too good an opportunity to miss.. dug out the fenders, dug out a mooring line (all of this while steering with a foot 😀) came round the end of the pontoon and then did a ferry glide light as a feather onto the pontoon - good job... hopped on to the pontoon tied up, and then proceeded to clear the boat of bird cr*p.. before sitting in what passed for sunshine with beer, cigar, and watched the world go by... cracking! 😀
Going to have another go on Monday.. that's twice now with very little breeze, chance has got to go my way soon..
Log:
Distance: 4.32 (cumulative total in the mileage tab at the top)
Wind: F0 to fitful F1; every direction under the compass
Sail Plan: Full main and genoa
Speed: 5.4 / 2.5 all under motor
Tuesday, 18 April 2017
Marker and back...
First sail of the year and according to my old records this is the earliest I've sailed in the year since that Baltic delivery trip [clicky] back in 2013... not quite as cold today, and certainly not as windy, but as a shake-down cruise it certainly hit every single one of the right buttons...
Just a short outing then - wind wasn't up to much and it was also a late tide (16:30'ish) and neap'ish (only 4 mtr) but a much needed opportunity to slope off the the sloathful'ness and mild anxiety (that always presages the first sail of the year!) and actually get out and do what the boat is meant for....
So a trip down the cut (how many times have I done that) with much of the same but plenty of new to be seen, and then sails up (main) and out (genoa), outside Northney marina, and bear away for the end of the Emsworth channel.... did that two or three times and decided to head for Marker - wind dropping all the time, but rather than having to beat back, the wind, which was changeable all afternoon, went round almost 180' so I had a run down to Marker, and a run back - most unusual....
Cold though - northerly's most of the afternoon - layers going on all afternoon... but oh my, a boat, a breeze, and the Classic FM Hall of Fame [clicky] countdown (my top three came in at #'s 39, 135, and 224 by the way).. does it get any better?????
Log:
Distance: 7.36 miles (cumulative total in the mileage tab at the top)
Wind: All over the place in speed and direction... F2 mainly (climbing F3 for last hour), gusting F3 mainly (F4 for last hour) . NExE going SWxS for last hour.. at about 1600'ish Cambermet shows the wind going through 140'!
Sail Plan: Full main and 90% genoa..
Speed: Max 5.8 (under motor) / average 2.9
Just a short outing then - wind wasn't up to much and it was also a late tide (16:30'ish) and neap'ish (only 4 mtr) but a much needed opportunity to slope off the the sloathful'ness and mild anxiety (that always presages the first sail of the year!) and actually get out and do what the boat is meant for....
So a trip down the cut (how many times have I done that) with much of the same but plenty of new to be seen, and then sails up (main) and out (genoa), outside Northney marina, and bear away for the end of the Emsworth channel.... did that two or three times and decided to head for Marker - wind dropping all the time, but rather than having to beat back, the wind, which was changeable all afternoon, went round almost 180' so I had a run down to Marker, and a run back - most unusual....
Cold though - northerly's most of the afternoon - layers going on all afternoon... but oh my, a boat, a breeze, and the Classic FM Hall of Fame [clicky] countdown (my top three came in at #'s 39, 135, and 224 by the way).. does it get any better?????
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Playing with the new selfy stick...  |
Log:
Distance: 7.36 miles (cumulative total in the mileage tab at the top)
Wind: All over the place in speed and direction... F2 mainly (climbing F3 for last hour), gusting F3 mainly (F4 for last hour) . NExE going SWxS for last hour.. at about 1600'ish Cambermet shows the wind going through 140'!
Sail Plan: Full main and 90% genoa..
Speed: Max 5.8 (under motor) / average 2.9
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