Ok, so you guys still can't mix very well and I have to bring my Skipper and Crew back to homeport at the end of the day but it's a start. I'm currently in the Yacht Haven in Cowes and not sure how long for, I think Skipper has or is striking a deal to have me here for a while, but we can go and try out my new J3 and hopefully be able to pick up the top-down furling Code 0 From Lymington too and fly dual sails and see how well I can perform.
Released from the land finally
Once in the water Skipper took 40 minutes to stop water weeping past the O ring of the log. Unable to stop the weep, he opted to switch the plug for the log itself having inspected the O ring, it took another 40 minutes to slow the weep to a stop by tightening and loosening and twisting the log till the rubber softened and seated properly. Not quite what you want but after so long in what has been quite warm conditions a lesson given, if learned we'll see next time. The log should be checked and then left standing in water to soften it.
It's not dissimilar to having a glorious summer and then during the first Autumn rainfall, the windscreen wipers of your car do nothing but make loud noises and smear your view until they soften.
Today (Tue 19/05) another glorious sunny day with between 8-13 knots of wind, Skipper having cleaned and polished the rear portion of the cockpit table where the repeat plotter sits, to enable it to be bonded in, decided to fly the J3 for the first time. The two additional outside spinlocks at the cockpit, together with the sidecars that the former owner had fitted but never used, finally came to good use. The Spinlocks required a little bit of cajoling to enable the 12mm guy to be passed through them as they've not been used.
My new J3 finally up and given an airing
As Skipper likes to ensure that everything he adds to me has two uses, the guys for the J3 will also be used as gybe preventers, enabling him to remove the line he had fitted to the boom.
Looking up from the deck at the J3
Looking up from the foredeck you can see another job to be done. As the radar is analog but my navigational system is digital the radar dome and its cabling is just dead weight right where you don't want it if you don't need it. So this, I'm sure will soon be brought down to Earth or eBay!
I'm sure that my jib will soon be fitted and furled up and then I'll be ready to head out into the Solent once more for a shakedown before plans can be made as to where he might take me, Virus willing!
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