The weekend promised to be manic from the start - a haul out scheduled for Fri morn, then rigging, steering, and everything under the water needing to be cleaned up / fixed. Alas, it wasn't to be. After spending Thurs night prepping for hauling out, we were told bright & early on Friday morning it wasn't going to happen. Instead, we cracked on with pulling apart half the rigging and I started moving the steering from the wheelhouse to the aft deck.
The steering proved to be tough - the steering columns were relatively easy to run, but I had to cut, weld and re-fit each of them as well as siting the bevel boxes. Anyways, it took up 2 days of my time and was pretty brutal. On the plus side, it works a treat.
After all that fun, we kept working on the rigging and found half our new terminals aren't going to work. Ugh. On the plus side, the new marina has a rigger who'll do them for £20 a shot instead. Cool.
We were told 07:00 Monday morning we'd be hauling out and sure enough, by 09:30 we were out. Moving the boat with the aft deck steering and engine controls was significantly easier than last time we moved around a marina; the only drama now being the engines are a bit smoky and the port engine put out a rather large puff of white smoke. Hmmmm.
Anyways, after a few attempts they managed to get the hoist slings beneath the boat, hauled us out, then moved us up to where we'll spend the next 5 weeks. Grant's currently down there tidying up the rig (they lowered it just after I left), and I dropped in our rudder bearing and stock for rework as it's bent and stiff turning to port.
5 weeks to go.
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