So, Swiftsure 2017 – the first race I’ve taken Gudge in! We were in the 80 nautical mile race. I got a big shipment of the rest of the safety stuff and spraypainted the banners at emma’s parents house (bribed with… Continue reading
As mentioned in an older update, I’d switched the original 10ft porta-bote for an 8ft model which I later regretted. The smaller size was great, but capacity and stability was not. I was hoping that was due to it being an… Continue reading
The call came in that my new lifelines were ready so I stopped by to pick them up after work. On my bike. Not thinking that together with the old ones the whole package was 40lbs and around 120 feet… Continue reading
Up to now, my tactic for dousing my main sail has been to ‘open halyard, dump sail all over deck, scoop it up and tie round boom’ in a highly technical manoeuvre called ‘the burrito’. This was often made more… Continue reading
A while ago I bought 350 ft of new anchor rode to replace the 200 ft I already had (giving me a total of 410ft, with the 60ft chain I have). The old rode was old as hell and was… Continue reading
So I signed up for swiftsure! Then I looked at the safety requirements and…. arghhhhhh So, I have three weeks to do the following (it’s really all stuff I should have done before I go offshore anyway) replace lifelines with… Continue reading
Over the last couple of weeks I managed to get a ton of sailing in – first a 3 day trip to Orcas to actually hang out with my friend Elyseseeeese and her boyfriend (normally I turn up, hang out… Continue reading
So the weather has upgraded from ‘god awful’ to ‘really depressing’ (another record – it rained 29 days in March. Wooooooo) and to celebrate I decided to finally clean and strip my two companionway winches. Also known as the piece… Continue reading