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The never ending jobs list…
By Duncan | July 8, 2008
It’s been a while since the last update, however we have been busy. As this project continues I am coming to truly understand why boats are alway referred to as women, for she is demanding all my time and money, requires constant attention and TLC and repays this all with an ever growing list of [...]
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What to do with the rig…?
By Ewan | June 12, 2008
The rig we have is full carbon mast and boom, with rod and kevlar standing rigging. The set up has two running backstays and a pretty skinny masthead backstay. Once we got the mast down it was clear that the track had been repaired in a few places and would need some work to get [...]
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Cleaning, Cleaning, Cleaning - and how we love Bilgex!
By Ewan | June 12, 2008
The next main job was a damn good clean! At some point there had been a lot of oil in the bilges which had got pretty much all over the bottom of the boat. This took three of us a whole day and lots of bilgex to get through. There were times when we felt [...]
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First testing
By Ewan | June 12, 2008
So having parted with lots of cash, it was time to get a detailed view of what we’d actually bought. What was going to work, what would need fixing? Mark got us a new battery which we hooked up to see what life we could get out of the switch panel, lights, instruments etc. First [...]
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Getting our grubby mitts on it (for cheap)
By Ewan | June 12, 2008
Based on what we’d seen of Pride, we came up with a list of work that would need doing and kit that would need buying in order to make her voyage ready. And then started adding up the costs – sheesh this yachting malarkey is pricey! Having checked that Excel was doing the math correctly [...]
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Exploring the Sydney 40
By Ewan | June 12, 2008
We’d taken a liking to Pride, the Sydney 40 at Hamble but knowing that we could easily incur an expense close to the purchase price in re-fitting, we knew that she needed a lot more exploring in order that we might figure out roughly how much work we’d need to to get her trip-ready.
The hull [...]
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Finding the right boat…
By Ewan | June 12, 2008
So, the big decision was made: sailing to Sydney was the way forward. Now came the simple task of finding a boat in which to make the trip. Happily we agreed on the basic criteria: fast and fun (come on, we’re still young, relatively), safe and strong, big enough that we could stand up down [...]
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