After two days of quite breezy conditions, Saturday dawned bright, sunny.... and windless. 0.0kts. We reasoned a motor out for mooring and berthing practice wouldn't be a bad way to spend a sunny day, so lines were cast off and we made the trip out to the mooring field.
Lauren's not had a lot of experience berthing or mooring before, so it was on to practice 101 with everyone's favourite boat yard crazy man (aka Grant). For those of you who know Grant, you'll be surprised to hear all went well and not one explosion occurred. Crazy, I know. Anyway, we were on our way back to the marina here for berthing practice.
So enough of this sailing nonsense, what did I really spend the last four days doing? Thurs and Fri (plus last weekend) was spent building a new hatch. It doesn't leak a drip and being made out of alu, is rather tough.
Here's the hatch from the outside. It still needs some paint around the edge and a light sand, but is fundamentally all done.
After that little project, it was time to take care of one of my two remaining bug bears. The outside helm position can't be fixed for the time being, but the lack of wheelhouse seating can. Here we see the alu framing for the starboard side seat - the winches will also soon be brought inside and sit on the end of this on a plinth.
And the port side. This is more of a wraparound seat with a small table to be fitted (I mean really, who wants to sit below to eat breakfast? Having a view is waaaay nicer). In the background you can also see the installed Mikuni heater and general storage heater.
Anyway, that concludes this week's update. I'm hoping to get down this Friday to get the wood trimmed and fitted onto the wheelhouse seating - watch this space.
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