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Winter maintainance underway with sails drying, covers off to Kinver Canopies for new cushions, refurbishment and replacements zips. The bed issue is sorted by adding two boards to the crew footwell and then two cushions on top making the whole area under the canopy one big bed for Nancy, me and the the dog. Varnishing…
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The engine fixed and a great lesson from Sirius Marine on how to bleed the tank, carb and drain the system down. It was now time to get sailing but the wind gods were no smiling on us as high settled across the uk for a number of weeks. The plan was to head to…
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We needed to test getting he on oand off the traler and a see how she handled on the water – we spent hours rigging her up and makeing a list. Once lauches the river was running too fast and high to venture out under the bridge so we thought a potter around the marina…
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Not happy with the boats name, we took the decision to rename her. After much debate we took Nancy’s grandfather’s boats name – the ‘Odd Times’ and carried on the tradtion – it also works a pun ‘Odd Times II’ but it isnt really meant as that. The Ship Registry was dealt with and a…
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The canvas cover needed some love and the zips and tapes on the cuddy needed a lube up It also becomae apparent that the width of the bunks was going to be a problem for me as a side sleepers and would need expanding. The jackstays didnt seem right and the cover had been cut…
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How does it all work – what goes where and how do you make the sail go up? Tape measures out!
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So after looking at Ruby we thought it would be good to test one out make sure it sailed well and we liked the experieince, Also a huge consideration was Shackle, out black lab who is still young and has been on a yacht and a canoe and seems ok but has never been dinghy…
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Whilst at the coat on holiday we decided that time had come for us to get a boat again. We have had several from single handers to performance raceing dinghys but this time it would be a traditional dayboat – a trailer sailor with space for sleeping and a keel or heavy centre board. We…
