Bit of a slow time at the moment

Not a lot has been happening recently. We had hoped to get down to Sarah G last weekend and try out the cruising chute properly on a short trip to Fowey but were defeated by rowdy neighbours keeping us awake till the early hours of the morning.

We will be down next on the weekend of the 31 July but have guests aboard so will not be going far. We do however hope to finally get the AIS transponder working. After a bit more reading it seems that having two aerials on the masthead really would be a bad idea unless we rigged up some complicated contraption to give them 2 meters separation which really would make us look like the roof a cold war embassy. Instead we are going to put a splitter in and run the VHF and AIS off the same aerial. Reports seem to say that this will work well enough.


And so it goes on. We are planning a long weekend in Falmouth at the middle of August with the objective of fitting the Aries. We will also leave here there for a week and start our holiday from Falmouth rather than Torpoint. Here is a picture of her dried out and also one of me looking not very heroic on the foredeck.