March 2019 – Spring at last! After a winter of fairly
frequent short fettling trips down to Gosport from Sheffield we can look
forward to the sailing season. Jobs have included:
·
Taking home the saloon sole panels, sanding back
and re-coating with Rustin’s 2-part lacquer
·
Sanding back teak around the galley, companion
way, wash-boards; again recoating with Rustin’s
·
Cutting out some new carpet pieces. The colour
doesn’t quite match the existing, but heh, they’re better than the old
·
Replacing the cockpit seat teak with new panels
from Howells of Poole. Quite a tricky job cutting out the templates, for which
we used thick lining paper. Then an absolutely beastly job getting up the old
stuff, ie thin teak on a ply base. Another time I’d let the professionals do
it.
·
Genoa serviced at Kemps
·
Mainsail had some uv damage parallel to leach,
apparently where sunlight penetrates the narrow opening in the mast. Repaired
with a new panel by David Flew
·
Lift-out on Sealift at Haslar. CopperCoat continues to look good, anodes good
for another season
Our first trip will be along to Sovereign Harbour at
Eastbourne, to leave the boat there for Ben & family to use the following
weekend. We plan to join the MOA rally to Cherbourg and St Peter Port in July.
Otherwise it’ll be Solent sailing this year, probably
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