It's been a couple of weeks since our last update but with 6 months to go - and me going back to work this week - we put in a big final week of ticking jobs off the list.
First up was sorting out some mildew under the aft cabin bed. This has been caused by a combination of the colder weather and there being no airflow holes in the bed base. Cue a morning with the holesaw and drill, and thirty holes later, the problem seems [.....]
Another big week of boat progress, but unfortunately not a real photogenic one.
The week started with me having enough of all the bits in the forward cabin - basically, it had become our unofficial dumping ground, so I rather unceremoniously emptied everything into the salon. As luck would have it, the very next day typically would have been a cracker for a sail, so we set ourselves a one week goal to get everything installed / tweaked, and that with only 4.5 months 'til haul out, [.....]
A bit short on photos this week (the rain stopped us from taking them yesterday) but some good progress. The rain has been shortlived tho - we had the hottest Halloween on record last week which has allowed us to really crack on.
I've never been too happy with the running rigging - undersized and too difficult to use. The Day Skip course highlighted some potential changes we could make so after ordering a few blocks from the chandlery (and scrounging some spare 10mm line from our rope [.....]
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