New Main Fits

To a slight feeling of relief, we successfully fitted the new main to Sarah G and we now have a dazzling white sail under our main cover. I dread to think how much it will show up the foresail but both of those still have a bit of life in them. We had thought about going for a bit of a sail today (Sunday) but Audrey has managed to get a bit lurgied so we didn't do that but will be down there asap to see how it sets.


Full marks to Chris Jeckells and his team for creating a first class sail though. If anyone is in the market for a sail, I would definitely recommend them. Not the cheapest but the true benefit of having your sailmaker based here was shown to us as he visited the boat himself to measure up.

Jeckells The Sailmaker

When we set to fold up and stow the old one on the dock, we realised just how tired it really was!


The only other stuff we really achieved was some measuring up for the ice box, the awning and the holding tank. Once the super duper sewing machine we bought on ebay arrives, I will be getting to work on making an awning to be proud of. Or wasting hundreds of square feet of acrylic depending on how I get along with the whole process. I am also devoting rather a lot of time to thinking about how to go about making a suitable ice box. More watch this space really.

Still, it was nice to get down to Devon and pat Sarah G on the coachroof and reassure her that we hadn't forgotten that she exists.