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Development of Spooks gaff rig.I’ve been playing with the rig, the sails, and the settings on Spook, each little change has seen a slight improvement in her windward performance, and those little...
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The month of the pumps
This was supposed to be the “summer of the paintbrush”, and yes, I have got quite a bit of that done but for a while there it was the “month of the pumps”. Kairos has four water pumps that deliver...
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The heat was on there for a while. Too much of it in the wrong place.
Its been far too long since the last time I had Kairos out of the water for a scrub and antifouling, so she had quite the oyster and barnacle farm under there. The silt laden and often brackish water...
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Small comforts.
Comfort, and I think I’ve said this before, can be a whole lot of small things that add up to an elimination of all the annoying things that just don’t fit.Kairos helm seat is quite high, it leaves the...
View ArticlePreparing to go cruising.
Planning to go cruising is one thing, getting ready to go is another. The electrical system in this old ship of mine is now 47 years old and pretty near everything in her is electric. The original...
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Repair work
I’ve a boat in for repair. Not my usual thing, but in this case the customer wants his boat ready to go for the nearly upon us summer holiday season, and “boat yards” aren't into doing small repairs...
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We went sailing last weekend.
Its springtime here, the temperatures at night are still a bit chilly, especially up on the mountain lakes but the daytimes are lovely. We had great weather, the sailing ranged from drifting...
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I get questions about making a hollow mast, so here's how I go about it.
Mast making. Reinforcing an aluminium tube spar with a birdmouth inner plus solid blocking.I’ve been given a mast blank, a 5m long x 75, od, 5mm wall thickness chunk of T6 temper aluminium tube. It...
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Masking and filleting the outside of the hull.
Long Steps is coming along.Progress, a little at a time but progress nevertheless. With the hull and most of the internal structure all sorted, its getting down to smaller pieces and the small but...
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I'm getting more done on Long Steps
With some of my other commitments dealt with and the weather warming a bit, the start of spring being just a week away, I'm getting a bit done on Long Steps. Some friends came and we flipped her over,...
View ArticleHalf a million views!
Wow!I just noticed that this blog has hit half a million page views, thats a lot, a lot lot!In spite of my having been very erratic in my posting for a while, the views keep accumulating, thank you...
View ArticleKeeping the phone charged up while away.
With spring just around the corner, warmer weather and the promise to myself that I'm going to be doing a lot more sailing this summer, its time to sort out the small annoyances from last year. One of...
View ArticleWintertime is not all gloom.
It’s a particularly lovely morning. Wintertime, one of those clear, perfectly still days that we get at this time of year and I’ve just ploughed my way through the mornings chores, and am sitting up...
View ArticleWinter blues, well thats the colour of the paint these last few days. Blue.
Its wintertime, a bit cold and damp even for much in the way of maintenance work so I've been gradually painting the after cockpit area of Kairos, the launch I live on. Pale blue, sand off until the...
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Dolphins, while they're wonderful, they dont fare well up here in the river.
We had a little adventure yesterday, Mark from the boat across the river, his daughter Bree, and I. He rang me up fairly early in the morning to tell me that there were dolphins in the river just...
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Back at work on Long Steps.
Giving the blog a kick. I’ve been trying different social media, have concentrated on Facebook for the last while, but it’s a mixed blessing and many people don’t like it. So, I’ve got the Yahoo...
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I had a great summer sailing in Spook.
I'll get back with a more comprehensive report, but in the meantime here is a pic taken by Jon Tucker while sailing in the Bay of Islands. The pic pretty much says it all.
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Summertime, and the consequences of not doing the maintenance while the...
Being summertime here, I’m pining for the Fiords . Oops, not quite. Monty Python has a lot to answer for. Really though I’m wanting to go sailing, cruising in a boat that has enough space in its...
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Springtime, it brings hope and opportunity here on the river.
Blog for 6 Dec. So, in theory at least its the 6th day of summer here, but the weather is its normal unsettled self for this time of year, warmer than usual so at times the weather is more extreme. Its...
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Morning on the river.
Morning. 14 July. 2018.He snores, my little dog, as he lies sleeping on his rug. Dawn is still an hour away so he’s entitled to sleep, but I’m sitting up in my bunk looking out over the water,...
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