The 2020 season has come to end early due to the actions of the current Government, I am due to come out of the water on the 1st of December which is still true but Skipper and crew could still make use of the time left to take me out despite having a few weekends planned with visitors or rips away. Firstly Skip was due to take his son back up to Norfolk where his drift car had been left a week prior to having its ECU remapped to produce more power out of the engine but also to ensure that cold, as well as hot starting, wasn't a problem.
The Government closing the door meant that skip had to abandon, although his son along with a friend of his went to collect the car, people's business relies on others paying their bills and collecting the goods. The Crew had also arranged for friends to turn up but this has had to be abandoned too as it's not an essential journey! So my team turned up this weekend (7th November) and removed both my main, jib & lazy jack bag.
The latter requires a new zip having had one of the handles of the double-sided zip get caught in the pulleys at the end of the boom and a patch where it has got caught elsewhere.
On the 1st December, I'm being taken back to the yacht haven to be put back on the hard for three months whilst skip goes right through me to clean and prepare for 2021. He has a few new projects up his sleeve so we'll see if these come to fruition. Whilst I have not been far this year, I have benefitted from Skips' busy commercial year with the top-down furler for my code 0, on the new bracket. The new Webasto heater with the ducting sleeved with a thermal sock and junctions turned round to provide the air pressure within to circulate air throughout my interior and the J3
I have it on good authority that my main will be replaced this winter in the same material as the J3 DP Hydranet 393!
With 2020 being a lost year for you humans maybe 2021 can be a year to push boundaries.
