Re rigging one wire at a time.

by **Dolphin** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 10:52 pm

Dianna, I reckon the next task for "Pavlova Boy" will be the weekly polishing of the mast from top to bottom.
Greg.

by **SeaLady** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:35 am

Sadly Pavolova boy has decided he does not want to see me anymore.
Perhaps the requirements of cooking pavlova, peeling grapes and waving palm fronds was too much to ask.

Ahh well back to square one.

by **peppercorn** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:23 pm

Dont worry Diana, Fondue man may still come sailing with you, but go easy on peeling grapes and waving palm fronds, he has difficulty doing more than one task at a time.

by **storm petrel** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:31 pm

Pleased to see you are still out there 'fondue man'. How is Peppercorn going? Have you spent anything on her yet or are you still sailing on a wing and a reel of sail repair tape.

Cheers,
Mark

by **Dolphin** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:42 pm

Here are some photos of Felicite's upgraded rigging.
For the first time i can now get lots of forestay tension on with the double purchase on the backstay and she points as best she can. As the rigger said it needs lots of backstay on the power pole!
The running part of the backstay is Dyneama.

: Double purchase on the backstay; P1020819a.jpg (56.9 KiB) Viewed 5384 times

Greg

by **bearmcnally** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:50 pm

Hey Phil

Don't matter what your mast looks like when it's on a MK 1!

Cheers Bear

by **storm petrel** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 8:58 pm

I like the storm board brackets for the windows. Someone fancied doing some serious ocean going on her at some stage. Do you have the window boards still?

Cheers,
Mark

by **Dolphin** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:22 pm

Yes I do still have the storm boards. Always ready at hand. Never used them in anger. I think the windows are the one weak point on the Mk3. We did some serious cruising in 92 up to Great Keppel and back from Port Hacking. I thought we took it easy but we travelled at about the same speed as Philip. There were a couple of times we could have used them if it got worse.
We're reliving the trip that Philip is doing now.

I did a trip in 83 and we were on a 43ft steel sloop that got hit with a wave first night out off Newcastle and it broke a laminated window 300 by 150 and stove it in. It was directly over my bunk. Paranoid? Not me!
Greg.

by **Phillip** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:30 pm

Your' right Bear,

But I'm going to add at least 4 steps

, if not steps all the way up, so I can reach all the stuff on top!

Phillip.

At the Duck Pond, Mooloolah River, Mooloolaba.

by **SeaLady** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 2:32 pm

My new mast is up and looking pristine.
Sadly my jib does not fit the new furler so is off at the sail makers.
And my radio does not work despite having a brand new aeiral and wiring. @!%$^&&*&%$#$#@^&$%E#
It worked before the aerial got broken. (*(*&&^%^R%E$&*()P&*(&^%R^

Yesterday was lovely sitting in the rain and cold with my wet weather gear watching other people work.

Have a 2011 and a 1977 coin under the mast.
The 2011 $1 coin cost me $13 as there are none yet in circulation so I had to buy one from a collecter.

Again @#%$&*&*(^%^$#$@

Looking forward to getting her out on the water and some warm weather.

I asked the riggers about how to get rid of the rigging in the case of an emergency. They say it is basically impossible to cut the wires they used and should the worst happen, just knock out the pins.
So all I need is a hammer and a pair of pliers.

Heres hoping that is never necessary.

I need a holiday somewhere warm.

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