What a glorious March it was and although my crew still busy on their other project, they kept an eye on me and we ventured out a few times, not far but enough to learn that the wind instruments had returned, but that my electrical main winch had decided to stop working.
Things are drying out down below, but recently having most of the floor up has revealed standing water along various places in the bilge & both underfloor storage trays in the rear cabins. All the electrical connections that come down my mast have been removed, cleaned up, oiled and replaced and I feel much better for it. The joint in the co-axial cable to the aerial was quite badly corroded and that's been cleaned up too, so hopefully I can push my signal further out now.
Over the Easter period my skipper delivered the 44' Grand Soleil that he competed the '09 Fastnet on from Lymington to Cardiff it was a 50/50 trip 50% sunshine no wind, 50% wind no sunshine. In fact too much wind and a day was lost in Newlyn whilst on the other side a freighter was driven up the coast in Colwyn Bay.
Recently my skipper has returned for a few days at the weekends and has taken a large portion of my flooring up, including removing the nav chair which has exposed the second bank of 4 batteries and a number of in line fuses that has left him scratching his head as only one has been labelled ! In fact he also removed all the boards in the stern cabins and found my fuel water separator he'd been searching for plus the fuel pump for the Webastow diesel heater that despite having an air lock in may have packed up too !
The Navtex has been replaced so that's providing the latest weather information again and I've generally had a bit of a spruce up and looking forward to the summer and visiting places I've only heard others talk about.
