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Post by NigeL on Mar 23, 2009 14:43:28 GMT 1
Boat looks tired and scruffy.
Various jobs to do but still chilly out there to stay too long at it. So bit by slow bit she's coming together ready for new season.
Big question of course is the 'legal' aspects of sailing her while court dealings are undecided. Coastal / Baltic is no prob. - it's the river and access to port !
Think boat will have plenty of work done while moored up - if I can't use her - then gives me time to get some more things done.
I hate waiting winter to finish and spring to really get going ...
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Post by malcb on Mar 23, 2009 19:11:22 GMT 1
Mine's ready to go back in next week. Antifoul done, Hull polished, Anode changed, prop polished, rubbing strake stripped of varnish and returned to natural looking teak.
Still got some jobs to do topside, and inside, but they will be done when she's in the water. I had to replace a broken hinge on the cockpit sole (engine access) which meant taking off the old treadmaster. To replace the treadmaster I really need to take the cockpit sole ashore and it's a bit heavy to carry down a ladder, so I'll wait until it's on the pontoon. Also I wnated to jetwash the decks, but I've been on such a filthy position on the hard that it wasn't woth it, I'll do that when she's in the water.
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Post by NigeL on Mar 23, 2009 19:26:24 GMT 1
But your boat always looks pristine anyway ! Except when you let idiots like me onboard ! At least this year - she's sitting by the mooring and only needs the crane. Before I had to have truck as well to move her from front of house round to the river. My pressure washer is questionable at moment - can't test it as outside pipes are still frozen. It was one of the items in the cellar when it flooded. Hope it's ok .... otherwise it's get out the release oil on the wallet again !  |
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Post by geoffwright on Mar 24, 2009 23:33:20 GMT 1
Hi All, Last year I made a list of all the things to do this year, but not much has been done. For a start, my workmate broke his wrist in early September, and that meant I had to work 6 days a week (instead of only 2!), until the end of November. Then our lorry driver started going off sick, and in January he fell down his stairs, and was off for eight weeks! So, again, I went in to work to cover for him. And, of course, the weather! What days off I did have, coupled with a thousand and one things to do at home, most of them were too wet, cold and/or windy! However I have removed the 1975 Petter 6 engine, and replaced it with a newer version - not that I really wanted another Petter. I just ran out of time, and found a replacement engine for sale on EBay, in Weymouth. I've no time for trying to fit a different engine, with the problems of nothing marrying up. Hopefully tomorrow (Wed) I will connect fuel pipes and electrics, and turn the key ;D The other 'must do' thing is to get up the mast and fit a butterfly bracket for the second forestay. That one and the original furling one have somehow become entwined, and that caused me problems in the Summer. I bought a device called a 'Topclimber' on EBay, and I'm just waiting for a calm, warm day to try it out. I think that's about all I'll have time for before the Easter Saturday, when our boats go back into the river. Certaily there's no time left to paint the old girl, haha  Geoff |
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Post by NigeL on Mar 25, 2009 8:16:58 GMT 1
Wish I could have that old Petter 6 of you !! That would be just right for my other sailboat - the 5.5m weekender. Very hard to find anything like that out here.
Well suns shining again today ... but -2C out there. Forecast for a coulpe of -10C days this week. So not time to stow away the winter woolies yet.
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Post by Ken.P. on Mar 25, 2009 9:37:04 GMT 1
Spent most of last year (and the winter) going to the boat once a week and most jobs are done, ready to go. There is one major job, might get tackled this year, maybe not as I want to sail. Mast is hinged, it was popular a few years back with Coromandel owners, but I have no need for it and hate the look of it! The parrels get still caught every time I drop the sail, even after my "improvements"....  Plan is to remove the stainless ironmongery and sleeve the mast with a piece of ali tube. |
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Post by geoffwright on Mar 25, 2009 19:08:29 GMT 1
Hi All,
Just back from the River. Connected up the starter motor and thought I'd just see if there was a connection there. The engine fired up on half a turn of the key, and I quickly had to find the decompresser haha. so I then connected everything up temporarily, placed the water intake pipe into a bucket of water, and switched on again. How wonderful when things all seem to work, even the alternator was charging the batteries! (I had years of flat batteries previously, when the alternator was not charging, and draining back when the engine wasn't running). Now I have to make some brass adaptors to connect various fuel pipes, etc.
Hopefully if the weather is calm on Sunday I can get up the mast!
Geoff
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Post by geoffwright on Apr 13, 2009 10:35:10 GMT 1
Hi All, Happy Easter to you all. My boat was craned into the river on Saturday, and the 'new' (1970's Petter) engine seems to be working well. Here is a photo of me at the top of the mast removing the twisted forestay. If it shows OK, I'll post another picture. Geoff  |
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Post by geoffwright on Apr 13, 2009 10:42:39 GMT 1
Sorry, I posted an incorrect URL. This seems to work:  |
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Post by geoffwright on Apr 13, 2009 10:46:25 GMT 1
Here's a picture of the offending forestay, which had wrapped itself around the furling forestay, thus preventing me from setting any head sails! It should, of course, be straight   |
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Post by geoffwright on Apr 19, 2009 19:16:40 GMT 1
What a glorious day today (Sunday). Decided to get the boat alongside the moorings barge and get up that mast again. There were boats sailing and racing everywhere, but somehow no one seemed to take any notice of me 30 something feet up in the air ;D
Got almost all the way up, then remembered the item I needed up there was still on the deck! Well, the exercise did me good I suppose. I took a little time just sitting on the seat (hanging from the halyards) watching the river activities. I really could have stayed up there longer. As it was, I got home an hour late for my dinner and got a 'roasting' from SWMBO ;D
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Post by ggt on Apr 19, 2009 22:31:28 GMT 1
I took a little time just sitting on the seat (hanging from the halyards) watching the river activities. I really could have stayed up there longer. Wot no pics? ;D Not sure I'd like to be dangling from a mast any longer than is strictly necessary but it does sound entertaining. Nice to hear new engine is working fine. p.s. an hour is nothing: I nipped out to the bottle bank on Saturday morning and said I'd be 5 minutes but might drop past the beach to take a quick look at sea conditions so maybe a bit longer. Took me three hours   |
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Post by NigeL on Apr 20, 2009 11:01:40 GMT 1
Now lets be honest we all do it ... we 'nip' down to boat and then end up sitting half the time mind in neutral ... thinking about all those things we SHOULD do ... but never do.
Svet's got used to it now ... anyone calls for me at house ... He's down at boat ...
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Post by faya on Apr 20, 2009 13:17:01 GMT 1
Yep - my other half is used to it as well now........Took a few earaches to get to this situation though........
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Post by geoffwright on Apr 20, 2009 14:01:26 GMT 1
Well it was a good job I went to the boat yesterday. I had plans for all this week, to be at home doing stuff to keep my better half happy, haha. Probably would have gone to the river later in the week. Then at 9 am the 'phone rings. It's my works manager to say the storeman has had an altercation with a chappie trying to break into his car. Workmate lashed out at him, and hit his car instead, breaking 2 fingers. So now I have to work every day for the next 2 weeks - just as the sun starts to shine after the Winter. So now I have to decide how much extra cash I will have to spend on the boat, hahaha ;D Oh, and I suppose I'll have to get something nice for Mary too.  It's been this way since early September, when my work colleague had an accident on his quad bike, and broke his wrist. I had no time at all for the boat. Oh well, It's early days yet. I am hoping to get to the Isles of Scilly later in the year |
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