End in sight...

Anti fouling done...  Before: After: ...looks a bit better! I do like that colour...  went with Seago Cruising in the end as the local chandlers had a deal on.. Shot of the completed "nav station" - also known as tea tray...  have added a lip to stop the Netbook sliding off (I'll...

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Tender bung....

...ooooerrr  missus..... Rubbish weekend of weather, but a couple of hours of sunshine this morning saw me finish off job no.7 - the bung is now fitted to the tender - a less than painful operation, but very pleased, a right proper job...  removed the old fitting (just a piece of pipe glassed...

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Good day...

....unseasonally warm and sunny this weekend so a perfect opportunity to get on with some work items.... Another couple of coats inside the tender - she's done now...  yes I know she looks ropey elsewhere - that's the intention - less attractive to the more light fingered brethren...  (though...

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Nav station part 1.. proof of concept... jobs update..

"Proof of concept" indeed.... With the Netbook now set up with charts and OpenCPN I needed somewhere to put it, so that I could still see it from the helm, but where it would be protected from the elements... so I came up with this idea. The frame sits over the bulkhead/partition - with a fork of...

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New purchases.... Spring is stirring...

Good news - I have a new mooring this year - potentially I should get an extra half hour to an hour before and after high tide - a potential huge improvement and gives lots of opportunity for more extended cruising on a single tide... great news, I owe someone a beer.... Separately the speakers are...

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Cheap plotter...

For Christmas I bought myself a Netbook - mainly so I could use it for reading ebooks, browse my email, blogging and stuff, without having to go and start up my PC which is in a separate part of the house..... all in all it's been a huge success, as in addition to the aforementioned (which it does...

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