For most of April we are going to the camp site in France again as part of the team which sets everything up for their season. We actually leave early on Friday morning so there will potentially be a 3 week long gap in the boat related posts during April and another week at the… Continue reading April and May Two trips to France and some sailing in between.
Category: sails and rigging
November 2024 End of season maintenance begins.
Tuesday 5th I went to LSC this morning to sort out my mooring strops which were still out in the lagoon after the lift out. These are currently drying out in the cockpit and will come home for checking and maintenance later his month. The rest of the hull has been scraped and about… Continue reading November 2024 End of season maintenance begins.
July 2025 More boat fixes, Progress with the Bungalow extension, Loss of a dog, Grace’s house move, a stroke like episode and other reasons for not sailing.
Wednesday 3rd Helen is away in Birmingham relative sitting this week. I am dog sitting in Poole so relatively free to organise my own day around the tides and the sailing club rally to Wareham Quay due at the weekend. Today I managed to deal with the last excuse for not sailing. Now that I… Continue reading July 2025 More boat fixes, Progress with the Bungalow extension, Loss of a dog, Grace’s house move, a stroke like episode and other reasons for not sailing.
June 2024 Fixing the Halyard wrap problem and dinghy punctures.
Tuesday 4th June Today I finally managed to get out to the boat with the A frame and pushpit support ready to drop the mast sometime in the near future to fit the anti-wrap line. During the row out the problem oar lock fell apart again although I could still row due to the stainless… Continue reading June 2024 Fixing the Halyard wrap problem and dinghy punctures.
March 2024
I am still spending at least half of each week working on the house in Doncaster as well as heading towards moving house on the south coast. The Doncaster house is almost ready to be rented out so I should soon be able to do some sailing. The plan for the next week or so… Continue reading March 2024
February 2024 Replacing a broken forestay but this month was mainly house building in Doncaster.
Thursday 1st Feb Another half day spent working on Grace’s kitchen in Norwich followed by me returning to New Milton for the band rehearsal. Saturday 3rd I spent the morning working to attach the replacement forestay and reefing foil onto the mast. The rowing pivot managed to survive the trip out to the boat but… Continue reading February 2024 Replacing a broken forestay but this month was mainly house building in Doncaster.
January 2024 – Named storms, broken forestay and a replacement mooring strop.
Tuesday 2nd Jan 2024 I am back working on the house in Doncaster and was woken a couple of times during the night with the rain and wind. There was not too much problem on the roads in South Yorkshire due to the weather but the M18 was closed by an accident. The sailing club… Continue reading January 2024 – Named storms, broken forestay and a replacement mooring strop.
November – Finishing the sail cover.
Do me a favor – If you ever see the boat for real, dont look at the sail cover too closely! I was definitely not cut out to be a sail maker or to have anything to do with sewing machines. You may have already seen the first steps with this job back in July. … Continue reading November – Finishing the sail cover.
Where did that summer go ? (May to the end of July 2021)
It’s hard to believe that it was May when I wrote the last blog post. The last few months seem to have vanished in a blur of trips to Aberystwyth to collect one daughter from university, trips to Norwich working on the other daughter’s house and time spent re(?)-decorating our son’s house ready to let… Continue reading Where did that summer go ? (May to the end of July 2021)
Mast and rigging.
This was a relatively long term section of the overall project which was mostly carried out in the garden rather than at storage. This has actually been going on in the background from the first morning the boat was mine (26/8/2016) with a lot of the progress taking place in 2020 just before the boat… Continue reading Mast and rigging.