Firstly let me say that I feel somewhat amiss in that I can't give you tales of real sailing just now because we are, as you know, layed up in Coffs. Even so, the sailor stuff still happens as the shot at left will attest. Enroute here I noticed that the wind vane was out of calibration so I knew there was little choice; When next in harbour, I would need to go aloft in the bosen's chair and have a look. This is not an easy task or indeed a comfortable one; particularly for one who has left their 25th birthday long behind. The 'getting up' involves a 'climb' up the 13m mast with the deck crew (Paul) backing up on the halyard attached to the bosens chair (more like a harness really). Now the real fun comes when the boat moves as the motion is amplified by the length of the mast and that makes for a wild ride for the jack up top.Sunday, June 6, 2010
Aloft
7th Jun 2010
Firstly let me say that I feel somewhat amiss in that I can't give you tales of real sailing just now because we are, as you know, layed up in Coffs. Even so, the sailor stuff still happens as the shot at left will attest. Enroute here I noticed that the wind vane was out of calibration so I knew there was little choice; When next in harbour, I would need to go aloft in the bosen's chair and have a look. This is not an easy task or indeed a comfortable one; particularly for one who has left their 25th birthday long behind. The 'getting up' involves a 'climb' up the 13m mast with the deck crew (Paul) backing up on the halyard attached to the bosens chair (more like a harness really). Now the real fun comes when the boat moves as the motion is amplified by the length of the mast and that makes for a wild ride for the jack up top.
Quite apart from the 'heroics' of the mast climb, the day has been productive with a number of repairs incluing to the cracked paint work. Sometime around 04:00 last night it occurred to me that what was cracked was probably body filler, not an uncommon aspect of steel boats. The filler is used to blend welds in particularly visible areas such a the toe rails in this case.
Firstly let me say that I feel somewhat amiss in that I can't give you tales of real sailing just now because we are, as you know, layed up in Coffs. Even so, the sailor stuff still happens as the shot at left will attest. Enroute here I noticed that the wind vane was out of calibration so I knew there was little choice; When next in harbour, I would need to go aloft in the bosen's chair and have a look. This is not an easy task or indeed a comfortable one; particularly for one who has left their 25th birthday long behind. The 'getting up' involves a 'climb' up the 13m mast with the deck crew (Paul) backing up on the halyard attached to the bosens chair (more like a harness really). Now the real fun comes when the boat moves as the motion is amplified by the length of the mast and that makes for a wild ride for the jack up top.
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