It;s been a long time I apologise, my skipper has been in London for a long time but has recently been on board doing all sorts of stuff with my electronics & such.
Summer has seemed to arrive again & I've been taken out for a few trips, but there's been a lot of activity recently so something is on his mind. I'm now wearing a new wind generator on my port stern quarter that keeps my batteries trickle charged with free power - that was a few days my skipper spent wiring that all in & fixing it to my rails.
On top of that the issue with both speakers at the stern port quarter was nothing to do with the volume of water that I took on board in the Irish Sea, just pure coincidence that both speakers happen to pack up at the same time, these have since been replaced and once again I can fill the cock pit with noise from either the stereo system or the coast guard take you pick.
All sorts of stuff has been added or repaired, the new port holes in my hull give better protection against seas and the deck windows have been measured to ensure they're replaced like for like too. But I feel there's more to come.
Clothes have been filling the master cabin, tinned or dried food filling the cupboards in the galley too. I have something called a flopper stopper in my stern locker and 5.0m of 8mm chain for the kedge anchor. There's a manual log to work out my speed through the water that has nothing to do with electronics but as Captain Cook or Lord Nelson would have had their crews do in the days before all this electronic age. I've a feeling I'm about to leave the Medina for pastures new. I've not managed to hear any conversations as my skipper has been busy working on his own, I did have a rigging crew arrive the other day to check me over only to discover that a set of pins in the spreaders has cracks in that it needs replacing, bit like going to the dentist & discovering that a root canal filling is on the cards. Likewise my bottom is up for a good scrub with the addition of a product called copper coat to be applied to keep of all the algae off & other living organisms that'll slow me down if left unchecked. Although not likely to happen for a month or so, it does show that I've not been forgotten and a deal struck between my skipper & the manufacturer in time for the Southampton boat show.
The Medina is a busy place all sorts of regatta's have come & gone whilst I've been here, fascinating to see all the different boats come & go, but my chance to go discover more is about to be unleashed and I'm getting excited as to where I'm going to be taken.
I'm drier than I've ever been & apart from the electric winch that doesn't seem to want to work, my skipper seems un-phased & during the raising of the main all seems to go according to plan and I feel in pretty good shape for what is about to be thrown at me, it feels good to know that soon I'll be out on the water again doing what I do best look after my skipper & his crew
As always as the story unfolds I'll keep you up dated as to what my adventures could be
