First up, photos from last week's project of fitting sliding shelves into the aft wardrobes. Yes, we lose some space but the value of being able to access everything easily far outweighs that...
Next up, I wanted a table in the wheelhouse for eating breakfast at, playing scrabble, etc, so after rummaging through the aluminium spares shelf, came up with a base that'll do the job. The table top is a really nice white formica piece, leftover from last week's drawer install (each set of drawers came with one of these as a top). We've clamped it in place for the time being and if we don't depart until the 1st, I'll attach some fiddles to it this weekend as well.
Saturday then rolled around and we were due to head out for a 12hr test sail, but with major thunderstorms the night before and more predicted, we decided to play it safe and keep working on projects. Like climbing up a 40-odd foot aluminium mast and fitting the anchor light. There is a light at the top of the mast but it stopped working, and I wanted something easier to access. Equally, mast top anchor lights often get lost in the general clutter whereas whilst this new light can't be seen for the full 360 degrees, it illuminates the whole wind gen structure sufficiently that you'd be hard pressed to miss us...
After that, it was a general tidy up, re-stowing the kayaks on the fore deck....
....And the tender on the davits.
At this stage, we weren't due to arrive in Guernsey until the 1st / 2nd but the marina complained about the size of our of our packages meeting us there, so we're going to try and bring the trip forward to this weekend. Conditions look good - light northerly winds will make for a great downwind run - but that will mean we can't cruise with the other boat heading over with us, and one of our crew members may not have his passport in time. If we don't make it this week, we'll hit up Cowes this weekend then head over next week.
41 weeks to go.....
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