Further plans

The season is shaping up to be a good one. We had a charity "bash" after work last Friday where we had an auction in which a day sailing on Sarah G was one of the items up for grabs. It went for a tidy sum which helped towards a very successful evening fundraising for Action Medical. The guy who won is over the moon and we are looking forward to welcoming him and his family aboard in July. Other people have been invited down as well so we should be having a social season anyway.

On other news, I spoke to Paul at Symblast and we will be collecting the coppercoat sometime around the end of February and should be able to apply it sometime in March. The hope is to get her in the water the weekend before Easter to give us a bit of sailing before the delivery trip to the West.

We were down on Saturday and did a bit of sanding of toe rails which came up quite well. On the other hand though, we had a look at the hatch covers in the cockpit and one of them had fungus growing on the bottom and sure enough, there is a bit of rot in it. I am hoping to be able to chisel out the rotten wood and let new stuff in rather than having to replace it which would be both expensive and would not match the others which are in good condition. As a precaution we are going to have to treat all the hatches.

Finally, Harbour Chandlers have done a first class job on replacing the guard wires which are now in place and make a huge improvement on the old ones.

We are going to stay in a B&B this weekend as I really want to get the Deks Ojle on the toe rail as soon as possible.