May Maintenance and Sailing Weekend plans ...
Provisional crew: Bru, Rik, Mark and Carl
Much debate ongoing about this coming weekend. We had planned to go down to the boat tomorrow afternoon for a combined maintenance and sailing weekend but it's not looking great
I'd forgotten it's bank holiday weekend. Neither I nor Rik fancy travelling tomorrow evening. So now it's looking like an early start on Saturday morning.
Snag is the forecast. Rather windy all weekend with F4 gusting 5/6 on Saturday and F4/5 gusting 6 or even 7 on Sunday. Not what we want for sailing.
We're now considering dropping the mast rather than sending Mark up in the bosuns chair. Hoisting him up the mast in blustery conditions could be an iffy excercise anyway and there's quite a few things need doing at some stage so maybe we bite the bullet and deal with them all this weekend ...
The topping lift needs to be retrieved
The spreader boots need fitting
The mast track needs lubricating
The anchor light needs fettling (new bulb? dodgy connections?)
The VHF lead needs routing up the mast instead of up the backstay
They could all be done from the bosuns chair but really it's enough to do to justify the hassle of dropping the mast and it's the safer option especially if the conditons are dodgy.
Other work we plan to tackle is to complete the bridge deck and move the batteries and associated wiring. I'd like to get the nav lights working too - although I've no plans to go night boating at present if something happened and we had to we need them to be serviceable.
One possible snag might be space on the pontoon. If we can't get on the pontoon and/or in reach of power we're a bit screwed for a maintenance weekend! Might be a case of sneaking onto the drying spot on the pier we used when we launched her. Doubt if there'll be any objections and we should be able to reach the power round from the first post on the main pontoon although we'd have to be careful routing the cable.
Plans may change!
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