Is that your sad little generator lying on the ground next to the boat?
Show your boat not sailing
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OSPREY
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No, it was there when we were pulled out.
Kolibri
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Hanging out reading a book while charging batteries tonight in Haleiwa Harbor and a few friends paddled by.
Kolibri
Anarchist
Boats on the floating docks are fine if they just use enough dock lines. Unfortunately I'm in a slip with a fixed dock and pylon. The strategy there is to use a ton of dock lines, set them up so the boat is positioned in the middle of the slip, and give them enough slack so the boat can go up and down with the tide and surge. You also put a bunch of fenders on the boat and bumper material (see photo below), fenders, etc on the fixed dock. A good friend who has kept his boat in a few slip down from mine for years has been providing coaching. I'm 1st on the list for a transfer to the floating docks so there's a chance that I may get moved over there in a few weeks.
Jud - s/v Sputnik
Super Anarchist
Read a story about some folks who left their cold-molded (I.e., strong) sailboat in Dutch Harbour, Alaska for the winter...carefully!
(But not carefully enough - storm damage at the dock. Says they’re lucky that dry storage wasn’t available as the boat may well have been blown over in the big storm that rolled through - food for thought; thinking of doing the same, leaving boat somewhere up there, to split up a summer cruise up there.)
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SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
If I was leaving a boat up there over winter I'd assume hurricane conditions and tie it down to deep anchors in the ground.Read a story about some folks who left their cold-molded (I.e., strong) sailboat in Dutch Harbour, Alaska for the winter...carefully!
Jud - s/v Sputnik
Super Anarchist
Totally makes sense (like the way they store sailboats on land in h some tropical places for hurricane season, by digging a large hole and placing the keel in the hole).
I think she said in the article that dry storage isn’t even an option in DH, which surprised me.
Kris Cringle
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Not sailing tonight.
Finknottle
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Off the island of Houat, Brittany, Belle-Ile in the distance, Contessa 32:
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2flit
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Jud - s/v Sputnik
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Laying on the cabin sole swinging wrenches, as evening and a big rain storm approached.
I absolutely abhor having trees overhead. My boat was landbound in my yard for too many years as I carried out a refit and engine rebuild, and I swore “never again”. (It was under a bunch of hemlock trees, which I failed to tarp off from right away as soon as the boat was hauled there, and the needles quickly infested almost every nook and cranny of hardware on deck. Then, with occasional winter snow —“west coat cement”, as our generally wet west coast snow is known (to some skiers)— the tarp structure would pool huge weights of rain water or heavy wet snow, threatening to collapse. Now I find myself two weeks landbound in a boatyard, shoved back under a shedding, autumnal maple tree. Fuck trees )
I absolutely abhor having trees overhead. My boat was landbound in my yard for too many years as I carried out a refit and engine rebuild, and I swore “never again”. (It was under a bunch of hemlock trees, which I failed to tarp off from right away as soon as the boat was hauled there, and the needles quickly infested almost every nook and cranny of hardware on deck. Then, with occasional winter snow —“west coat cement”, as our generally wet west coast snow is known (to some skiers)— the tarp structure would pool huge weights of rain water or heavy wet snow, threatening to collapse. Now I find myself two weeks landbound in a boatyard, shoved back under a shedding, autumnal maple tree. Fuck trees
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OSPREY
Member
Hydrovane installed going in today.
Dr. D
New member
A few days ago….
Cruisin Loser
Super Anarchist
Wow! You've been busy, she looks new!
OSPREY
Member
Ten weeks, six hours a day. Next year we will go after the interior and paint the decks.Wow! You've been busy, she looks new!
TheDragon
Super Anarchist
Removing sails. Then stripped bare, turned around, and secured for cyclone season in Vuda Point Marina in Fiji. The grey lines are regular mooring lines to rings on the concrete walls. The yellow lines are new nylon three-strand to chains across the concrete walkway around the cyclone-proof basin to deadmen (railway rails buried deeply in the banks of the basin). If a cyclone threatens the marina will use the windlass to tighten the anchor chain that is already led and secured, but now slack, to a massive "anchor" (actually a sugar cane mill cog) sunken where the catamaran is moored in front of Sea Change. I get back to her in April.
