Southampton Boat Show 2012..

Saturday was the Boat Show in Southampton - briliant day out with the bro in law mooching around all the stands - I don't think we missed very much - certainly had the sore feet at the end of the day! This beauty was sailing past the pontoons in the afternoon - there were all sorts of boats, including...

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Delivery Trip... Redux!

...I should have called this post "what goes round comes round"... or even "I'm sure I've seen that castle before"...  Rod and I bought his boat Ami-Ly back round from Port Solent to Northney, this weekend just gone, to finish the repair job that he was half way through when we took her round...

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Mast raising experiments...

Saturday saw me on the boat to put the mast up... I had a few idea's I wanted to try out as despite the A frame making life immeasurably simpler, there is still an issue with my style of mast foot where the mast can swing side to side if it is not braced by a third party...given I do a lot of the mast...

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She's in....

...and 24 hours later - leak free - phew!!  Rod the Mod gave me a hand - she's easy enough to launch from the trailer, but a bit*h to get back on if we needed to - it needs two people. As it turned out no pull out was required - forecast on the day was exactly right; light winds & sunshine...

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Just waiting for a weather window...

so... first off the hole repair is now complete... From this: To this: To this: Superb job...  I got this done through the chandlery in Emsworth Marina [click here] - £150 which considering he had to make three trips I thought was pretty good...  OK, so it was more than...

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Delivery trip...

Rod the mod (erstwhile skipper of Ami-Ly of Round the Island fame), gave me a shout yesterday morning. Ami-Ly (a Legend 290) was in Northney having some glass fibre work done, now finished for the time being, so he was going to take her back round to Port Solent that afternoon and did I fancy doing...

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