I thought I should relocate the microwave into my new renovations.....I love boats!

Also I have removed close to 200kg of the previous owners rubbish and my own. I'm not sure how you can accuse me off adding my rubbish to my yacht as I'm only moving stuff around and re modelling as it should be. My yachts are turn the key and go sailing most days!
and please explain What are you talking about pussy any wild sex?

Hi all

I put my Sailmaster up on the slip on Saturday and after 3 days of hard work (I had Sunday off) she is ready to go back in the water tomorrow

It was the normal antifoul, polish the topsides and pressure clean the decks we also did some painting on the deck and i gave the prop a coat of hard antifoul (poor mans propspeed) that my mate had laying around

I also squirted some grease (thanks Ramona) in the rudder tube and this has taken a bit of play out of the rudder shaft

When i bought the boat the geona tracks had been moved about 10 inches inboard and the original holes filled and the deck outside of the creame anti slip was painted cream but the paint never covered correctly and looked dodgy

Also on port tack with the starboard rail and deck in the water water would drip through one of the original holes and we would have water in one of the cupboards (fibreglass lined luckily)

We sanded the dodgy paint down and gave it a couple of coats of white interdeck so now it looks a lot nicer and is now non slip as well and hopefully the thick interdeck (a bit like painting with thick honey) will fill the leaky hole and keep the water out

I have been battling something nasty the last week and my sailing mate Rob did a lot of the work while i stood around coughing my guts out

Regards Don

SandS said..
geez you did well slipping her on saturday ! must have been bad down there it was really crap here in vic on sat !!
good work !!

Hi Sands

It was fairly quite in the morning when we put her on but it blew pretty hard on Saturday afternoon and night so we put the 4 additional ropes holding her down onto the cradle and the halyards out each side from the top of the mast to the fence around the slip

The weather has been a mixture of not bad to crap but we have been lucky to be able to do the painting in the not bad and luckily it was dry when the crap came

The boat side fairly solid on the cradle as she has a long wide keel and the sheds around the slip area give a bit of protection from the north west wind '

'Regards Don

Benefit of a co-owner handy on the tools. Homemade quick removable Davits.

G'day, sorry about the sideways photos.
i launched the Argie 15 I built over winter yesterday. I used the rig, rudder, centreboard, fittings & trailer from an old NS14 I had. The rest is 7 sheets of 6mm marine ply 10litres of epoxy,fribregass cloth & some Tassy oak. & 180 hours labour.
She he sailed surprisingly well for the first time out. Breeze was 10kn increasing to 20kn later.

Some rather expensive sailing bling added to my mighty Icon today!

Something like this set up was 30 years old! Crisco kid offered me a deal to buy basicly the same I declined and went the expense but happy with the choice.

is that to stop boom wobble at mooring ?

Got the trusty camera out and took a few snap shots , Should get 50 mm more on my mainsail tension! And re attach the head board to the tides marine track!

My Raymarine is more better I get a stiff neck looking 15 meters a above deck!

southace said..
Got the trusty camera out and took a few snap shots , Should get 50 mm more on my mainsail tension! And re attach the head board to the tides marine track!

I gotta ask? What is the point of a crap knot, with a D shackle, with a swivel with a snap shackle? Quadrupling your chance of failure?

Can I ask why you would not just tie the halyard directly to the headboard.
Less fittings to trust and every year just cut to a new bit of tail.
Just a thought.
The real issue is that the sail track in too short.

Looks like the leach line BB. Allows adjustment from the mast rather than precariously hanging off the boom.

Bugger. A hydraulic leak on the keel ram.
We had a two day regatta on the weekend, I was prepping the boat on Friday night when I noticed the hydraulic fluid was low on the keel. Ended up adding a litre which was worrisome. I made a mental note to keep an eye on it and off we went.
Coming back in yesterday afternoon, the keel took a lot longer than normal to lift. Checked the fluid, it was low and we had almost lost pressure again.
Oh dear.



The issue appears to be the last time it was lifted for antifouling, they yard boys didn't put a wooden block between the keel and the hull, so I believe we overextended the ram and popped a shaft seal.
To get the ram out is a poisoned chalice. Access is excellent, but the keel needs to be fully extended to allow removal of the ram (it's unloaded when down). We'll need to open the lid of the keel box which is easy , it just needs a lot of time, muscle and a torque wrench.
Where to do it is the next challenge. Doing it in the dock is risky. High tide is ok, but if we run into problems and we hit low tide I'd be sitting 1mtr out of the water on an unlocked keel. Eek.
Can't do it at the club, as we're too beamy to fit any cradles with the keel down, so its up the river to Rivergate or down to Coomera to Boatworks.
I'll probably use the Boatworks, its a nice leisurely sail down.

The Kingfisher series is starting at the end of this month, which is an excellent 4 race series of night racing. You sail on the full moon every month for a 4 month block from October. I wish they had more races, it's fantastic sailing, one that I do not want to miss.

Any suggestions for a local hydraulics guru out there?