I'm in !

Yes, I'm in.

Tuesday 27th March I finally went back into the water.  After the weather hampered things, holidays for the staff of the marina and then my skipper tied up on the mainland helping out with an Engineering practice in Romsey, I'm finally in.

Sails on board but the weather not good enough to allow my crew to attach (hank) without probably causing injury to themselves.  Bearing in mind that my crew member has her hand in a support, still recovering from her fall in the first lot of ice.

Skipper had taken the replacement gate to an Engineer on the other side of the river and it came back wrongly handed, but they've gone back and are ready to be fitted this Easter.  The strap for the babystay has been made out of wood and will be handed to the Engineer to be made out of stainless, then one of my skippers 'would like' items move's very much in a forward direction and is likely to bring with it a few others.  Once this has been manufactured and fitted, a new halyard needs to be fitted to the mast including an internal mast pulley, this will enable measurements to be taken required by the sailmaker Peter Saunders to make a J3.  Once this has all been achieved, if not huge in its self, then the Code 0 will be handed to Peter to put a torsion line required for a furling system.  Skipper's thoughts are to fly both Code 0 and the J3 similar to the Farr Open 65 in the Volvo Ocean Race.

The staining that's occurred due to the snow settling on my decks has all gone, skip came down and washed me once again.

On the day of my re-launch skip also had time to catch up with his old skipper Mr Jackson, who happened to be in the marina. He disappeared with the socket set so assume he's been asked to look at something.  My Marlec Rutland wind generator was reinstated and allowed to run to clear any build up of nasties from the plates and put some heat into the system.  Skip was pleased that all went according to plan and so turned off the shore powered charging system in favour of the wind generator.

With the Easter Bank Holiday approaching, plans are afoot to take me up to Totland Bay then on to Swanage or even Portland, however, the weather will have the last word and so, for now, I'm still in the marina and skips been on board to do some more work.