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Getting there
Submitted by Roger Kynaston on Tue, 04/05/2010 - 18:59Well, we are now in the water and fully in commission. Getting ready took a bit longer than I would have chosen but we had a great weekend and got the boat to Dartmouth. This coming weekend we will be taking her round to her permanent home at Torpoint. After a very protracted wait, we now have the AIS transponder which I will install once I have my hands on a bosuns chair to get up the mast. We have also located a trysail which was an unwelcome requirement of the ISAF rules.
Glad to see this site fully up
Submitted by Roger Kynaston on Mon, 22/03/2010 - 18:49Thanks for all the hard work Marco.
As the others, we are concentrating on getting Sarah Giddings ready for this season and, in particular, the qualifying passages - two in our case for both Audrey and Matthew.
So far though we have been concentrating on getting the coppercoat applied for an Easter launch. At least this looks like being a reality now as it was very doubtful at one point.
As ever, there are more details at my regular blog:
Aries Vane Thoughts
Submitted by Roger Kynaston on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 00:05When we bought Sarah G one of the attractions was that she was listed as having an Aries windvane included though it did not appear in any of the publicity photos. Thankfully she does come with one but the previous owner had never fitted it. We are now in the process of restoring it to full working order.
They are a fascinating piece of equipment. According to the drawings on the website, they have only 80 odd moving parts. This is more or less true and definitely puts it firmly into the KISS principle piece of equipment.
First Entry in this blog
Submitted by Roger Kynaston on Tue, 05/01/2010 - 19:17This is my first entry in this blog. I had previously modified another one to chart our entry in the 2011 AZAB. It can be viewed here:
Watch this space for further postings!