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
This weekend I went across to Orcas Island (first time since last halloween!) I hadn’t seen Elyses for a while and I had some stuff there to pick up. Emma also came along, after spending 7 hours to get from… Continue reading
The last pre-requisite I needed to enter races was a PHRF rating – kind of like a handicapping system for boats. In theory, it means that fast boats can race against slow boats in a kind of even playing field… Continue reading
So the last thing I had to do to finish off the ICOM 802 install was plug in an antenna to act as an emergency DSC antenna. ‘What – two antennas for one radio?’ I hear you cry? (although that… Continue reading