The weather seems to be improving for now but we are now almost certainly not going to be ready for an Easter delivery to the west country. Last weekend might have been OK for putting the Coppercoat on but a few things intervened.
Firstly, Audrey had caught some sort of stomach bug and was not really fit to help out on Saturday, then, it was Mother's day on Sunday and we simply delayed things for an enjoyable day out walking on the Isle of Wight. It was still a bit boaty as we met at Emsworth and fought a bit more with the zinc anode. We do now know why the anode is not working very well. The steel studs are very rusty inside and I don't think that there is a proper electrical connection with the wires completing the "cell" The studs are now so badly rusted (not corroded) that we are going to have to replace them - or one anyway. So we are back to the familiar situation of having a hole in the boat!
Anyway, we hope to do the coppercoating the coming weekend though the long range forecast is talking about rain now. Grrr!
The AIS front is continuing frustrating. No sign of Simrad getting the damn thing delivered any time soon as far as I can tell.
Other news: We found that there is a requirement in the ISAF regulations to carry a storm trysail so we have to find one now. My opinion backed by others is that they are not worth the locker space that they take up but the rules are unbendable on this one. Another Grr!
Oh well, I shall try and get some pics of the Coppercoat going on to relieve the unrelenting text stream that this blog has become.
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