Monday, June 30, 2014

Down for scheduled maintenance....

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After the shenanigans of the RTIR last weekend, it was time for a down weekend to get some basic maintenance done. Belts needed tightening, the rig needed checking, the autopilot and chartplotter needed further configuring, and the Mikuni and Dickinson needed a run. The weather wasn't all that bad either.


Annoyingly, we continue to have problems with the Dickinson. After 45mins of good running, it starts to dump diesel in and the flame turns from a lovely yellow & blue, to yellow, to yellow & orange, [.....]

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

RTIR 2014

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So the past weekend was the 2014 Round the Island Race, and we were booked to crew a mate's boat. Thursday was spent with an engineer in Calypso's engine bay, looking into the smoky starboard engine (turns out it's a bad injector on cylinder #1) then it was off to Cowes early Friday morning. The race boat - Arrow - was going early to get through the lock at our destination marina, whereas we were heading out sailing for the day to get some testing in.
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Monday, June 16, 2014

Progress....

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After attending the Bluewater Boat Seminar last weekend, we were left with a feeling that our in-boom furling was a disastrous situation and the sooner we ditched it, the better. All our previous experiences with it had left us with poor sail shape and much swearing when attempting to furl the sails (in fairness, we'd not actually spent much time tweaking the setup). I spent the week researching lazy jacks (lines that allow us to drop the sails without them going everywhere) to see if we could just [.....]

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