Resupply Run
First of all – still no pictures. My phone, after lasting two weeks with no back or power button (leading to me having to jam a fork in the side every time I wanted to turn it on) has finally… Continue reading
Maintenance
Progress (kind of)
I think I used this title before maybe? I’m not sure. It’s been over 230 blog posts(!) so it’s kind of hard to keep track. Anyway, I’ve now done SEVEN out of ten portholes. Hooray. Unfortuntly I don’t think I… Continue reading
I’m Real Bad at sewing
I ordered a bunch of shit off of www.sailrite.com in order to make some new curtains – my V Berth and head don’t have any. This wasn’t a problem before, as the portholes were covered in enough scratches, UV damage… Continue reading
End of Summer
Well, its definitely Autumn. The nights are noticeably cooler, it rained a bunch, and there seems to be a billion mosquitoes. I straight up kill 3 or 4 a night, leaving their mushed corpses as a warning to the others, but… Continue reading
Hebridean arrived
As mention here I ordered a wind vane called a Hebridean and it arrived today in kit form. Looking at the instructions it’s gonna take me a fantastically long time to assemble – WINTER PROJECT methinks. At 1/8 the price of… Continue reading
Muddling along
Not a super amount to say over the last little bit I now have three of the new portholes in I also removed a 4th one, ready to finish tomorrow I hope I installed an extra charger/holder for the wireless… Continue reading
Redoing furling line (again)
One of the things that came up in the high winds sailing was that it was still a bit difficult to furl the foresail in high winds. This was because of my numourous attempts to rig something using any spare… Continue reading
Hebridean Wind Vane
One of the things I need is some kind of self steering, so I don’t have to sit at the wheel for hours on end. There are two main types – an electric autopilot that connects to your chartplotter and… Continue reading