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() I redid all my wiring connections so they are simple plugs. My lazy jacks usedto be spliced on, but a knife fixed that the first year. Now I tie them on with bowlines. When I remove sails, I don't try to fold them perfectly. I am happy as long as I can get them into the bag. I refold them at home after the end of the season.
Well, enough of this, it is now time to do the really time consuming boat work - getting my 1936 wooden motoryacht ready to launch. I am scarfing in eight new planks this year, paiting and varnishing the entire boat, finishing filling the weave on the new fiberglass cabin top with epoxy then sanding it out and painting it, revarnishing all the interior wood and the usual small stuff (installing cabin top hand rails after building them and varnishing them, reinstalliong the running lights, solar panels, nameboards, etc.). Shouldn't take more than 3 weeks or so
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- Dismasting of the Galapagos
- A harrowing story, and a good advertisement for free standing rigs...
- Checking out their blog, it's not the first time they had a rigging issue
- That was a good find. It's about
- I don't drop the mast anymore. Pain in the ass and often damaged something in the process.
- I always figured it was kind of
- different school of thought
- Piece of cake, here. It's all what you're used to.
- Yup, stepping and unstepping are simple and stress free..
- I left a couple of things out
- You guys have to have fairly simple
- I will stop complaining
- I find stepping/unstepping to be tedious and costly, not stressful..
- OK, Now we're talking apples and apples.
- When you do it every year you get it down to a simple process...
- Not quite as easy on a larger, more complex boat...
- Well, part of the difference jumps out
- I invested quite a bit of time making stepping/unstepping easier
- Every ten years whether it needs it or not...
- Not quite as easy on a larger, more complex boat...
- OK, Now we're talking apples and apples.
- Simple, as in stock yawl rig, I guess.
- You guys have to have fairly simple
- I left a couple of things out
- Yup, stepping and unstepping are simple and stress free..
- Piece of cake, here. It's all what you're used to.
- different school of thought
- I always figured it was kind of
- I don't drop the mast anymore. Pain in the ass and often damaged something in the process.
- And sometimes it's just plain luck. Here's Tehani's broken mast head
- That was a good find. It's about
- A harrowing story, and a good advertisement for free standing rigs...
