Sewing marathon
Saturday 11 Apr, CY day 28: Looking at the forecast over breakfast, the wind is definitely starting tomorrow. So will need to have the over-boom cover off as we don’t want to…
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Saturday 11 Apr, CY day 28: Looking at the forecast over breakfast, the wind is definitely starting tomorrow. So will need to have the over-boom cover off as we don’t want to…
Friday 10 Apr, CY day 27: After breakfast we remove the bimini to start sewing the solar panels framing while we still have the over boom cover to keep us cool. I…
Wednesday 8 Apr, CY day 25: Full steam ahead on bimini solar panels. Hot day today, totally windless again. Lots of swims needed to keep cool in-between sweating in the cockpit. But…
Tuesday 7 Apr, CY day 24: Wiring the solar panels and up the mast to replace the leather jumper protectors. We had planned to head ashore to the supermarket today. But after…
Sunday 5 Apr, CY day 22: Starboard side mesh sun-shade completed. It’s the first Sunday of total lock down, so there is barely a sound from the streets ashore. I decide to…
Monday 30 Mar, CY day 16: More Sailrite use to stitch the spraytop, and unwanted visitor in the evening, when we discover stowaway monster cockroach. Its windless and hot in the morning,…
Friday 27 Mar, CY day 13: Didn’t Dory once say: “just keep sewing, just keep sewing!” ? We wake to more wind than yesterday. 10-15 kts and increasing. So we take our…
Thursday 26 Mar, CY day 12: 24/7 curfew day 1. It was totally windless during the night. I was woken up at 3am with the mooring buoy knocking on the hull –…