We'd been up into the early hours chatting and drinking coffee laced with rum so it want exactly an early start to proceedings this morning.
First order of business was shopping and breakfast ... or possibly shopping for breakfast! Given that the Asda in South Woodham Ferrers doesn't have a cafe we decided to head up to the Morrisons at Maldon.
Two full English breakfasts, coffee and a quick bit of shopping and then back to the boat to get on with the ropework. A couple of hours or three later and the new lines were all made up ready to fit. As it was raining, we decided to break off for lunch which was of the brown liquid variety ... and I'm not talking coffee!
(I shall endeavour to post some pics of the new rigging on a follow up message but we've been struggling all weekend to get any sort of usable signal on either the marina wi-fi or mobile networks do it may have to wait until I get home)
Lunch over and rain paused, we set to pulling the new lines through the masthead blocks. Couple of nearly up-cocks narrowly avoided but all well in the end. By now it was getting a bit chilly and murky so we retired below decks and attempted to watch the rugby.
Using a combination of my laptop and 3 Network dongle and Glens' I-phone we managed to watch most of the match.
No prizes for guessing where we are now!
Tomorrow we'll hopefully get the boom and sails back on and sort out some means of keeping the outboard pointing straight ahead (more on that subject later). If time permits we might even get to the job of tensioning the standing rigging.
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