 | Sail repairs - generally just replacing carpet tape. I don't know if these sails
will last very long, but they were cheap to make but I might need to make another set next
season. |
| Fix the pivot bolt on the tabernacle. I discovered that it hadn't been secured
while working on the mast - I thought it was that but it wasn't and had started to slide
out. After breaking a few drill bits, I finally managed to drill through the hinge
and bolt and put in a cotter pin. Also at this time, I planed down the bottom of the
mast so that it should run smoothly to the bottom part of the mast. I had the lacing
hang up on this a few times. This will need repainting now though. |
| After raising/lowering the mast at least 1/2 dozen times, I finally moved one of the
peak halyard blocks to the lower attachment with the throat halyard. This seems to
work, but the setup is still stiff. I may have to change out to smaller diameter
lines or (gasp) buy better blocks. It seems to work for now. |
| Add a jib downhaul. I set this up for 1/4" line with a block at the bottom of
the forestay and one at the top of the aft starboard side shroud. This leads back
nicely to the cockpit. In a test run it worked great. |
| Add a flag halyard. I might not use it much except to hoist the Blue Peter,
but it will be nice for having something other than the sail to haul the gaff down with
and it works really well for that. I've found that if you can pull the peak down,
the throat comes down fairly well too. |
| Add some screws to make my car window flag / ensign staff secure |
| Using some plastic pipe and 1/4" nylon line, I made some mast hoops that seem to
work fairly well |
| Paint touch-ups. I lost some paint where the tie-down straps rubbed, need to use
pads next time. I also was able to crawl under the boat and touch-up. I lost a
fair bit of paint along the bottom of the keel mainly from when I winched the boat back on
- it would appear that the mid-ships roller doesn't. Next time I'll get the boat
farther in and this shouldn't be an issue. I was glad that I only had sides on the
keel guides - it allowed me to easily do the touch-ups and inspect for damage. |
| The tiller line was loose, so I tightened it up and put it under tension. I'll
need to figure some way of keeping my knots from slipping. |
| Made a cover for the sail out of spare material. Polytarp seems to degrade in UV
over time so this will buy me some extra time. |
| Move the scraps of foam board from the forepeak to the transom. They about 1/2
fill up the available space. I was going to put it all into bags, but most of the
pieces were fairly big so I just tossed them in as-is. |
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| Add a small eye-bolt inside the rudder box to act as a fair-lead for the rudder
down-haul. Also, cut a section off of the rudder head to allow the line to run free. The
down-haul had slid next to the rudder head and caused the rudder to bind. I suspect one of
my problems with tacking was due to the rudder never going completely down. |
