Harpsden
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With not too many posts with pictures of boats at sea on the forum at the moment and yet another rainy weekend I thought a few pictures from February might be of interest.
I moved our new (to us) boat to Lymington in Mid January. I wrote about it here http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?344346-Delivery-Passage.
After the move in January I took every opportunity to crawl all over the boat getting to know the systems and understand how everything worked as well as looking for any problems that needed fixing or improvements to be made. After that February was set as the month to get everything as I wanted. I wondered why there was so much to do on a three year old boat that had passed its survey with flying colours then I realised I was trying to achieve in two months what had taken me four years with the previous boat.
The boat was lifted on the first Monday in February and all the works I wanted to get done were done ready for the re-launch the following Monday.
After that it was a case of waiting for a nice day to come along for the first passage with my wife on board. The following Saturday looked promising so at 11:00 we set off for Cowes with the Lymington river looking lovely.
When I wrote up the delivery trip someone commented I hadn't taken a wake shot so I made up for that this time:-
Cruising at 11 knots is much more restful than the 22 knots of the previous boat and it is nice to have the autopilot on. With the double helm seat and a smoother steadier ride Freya was doing what we wanted making passages much more sociable. The starboard side deck directly accessed from the helm is also nice for moving around. (I promise on longer trips I will stow the fenders properly!). With the Solent calm it also gave the opportunity to test fuel consumption at different speeds and plot the graph of fuel usage against speed.
For what was such a nice day there was very little traffic around and plenty of empty pontoons at Cowes Yacht Haven; one of the really nice things about winter boating.
A good lunch in Cowes and a walk up and down the High Street. There seemed to be a lot of empty shops or maybe it is always like that at this time of year. The dark clouds had gathered while we had lunch so it was a cloudy trip back to Lymington but then the skies cleared and there was a lovely end to the afternoon.
A nice bit of winter boating with everything working as it should. Why has the weather been so bad since!
Harpsden
I moved our new (to us) boat to Lymington in Mid January. I wrote about it here http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?344346-Delivery-Passage.
After the move in January I took every opportunity to crawl all over the boat getting to know the systems and understand how everything worked as well as looking for any problems that needed fixing or improvements to be made. After that February was set as the month to get everything as I wanted. I wondered why there was so much to do on a three year old boat that had passed its survey with flying colours then I realised I was trying to achieve in two months what had taken me four years with the previous boat.
The boat was lifted on the first Monday in February and all the works I wanted to get done were done ready for the re-launch the following Monday.
After that it was a case of waiting for a nice day to come along for the first passage with my wife on board. The following Saturday looked promising so at 11:00 we set off for Cowes with the Lymington river looking lovely.
When I wrote up the delivery trip someone commented I hadn't taken a wake shot so I made up for that this time:-
Cruising at 11 knots is much more restful than the 22 knots of the previous boat and it is nice to have the autopilot on. With the double helm seat and a smoother steadier ride Freya was doing what we wanted making passages much more sociable. The starboard side deck directly accessed from the helm is also nice for moving around. (I promise on longer trips I will stow the fenders properly!). With the Solent calm it also gave the opportunity to test fuel consumption at different speeds and plot the graph of fuel usage against speed.
For what was such a nice day there was very little traffic around and plenty of empty pontoons at Cowes Yacht Haven; one of the really nice things about winter boating.
A good lunch in Cowes and a walk up and down the High Street. There seemed to be a lot of empty shops or maybe it is always like that at this time of year. The dark clouds had gathered while we had lunch so it was a cloudy trip back to Lymington but then the skies cleared and there was a lovely end to the afternoon.
A nice bit of winter boating with everything working as it should. Why has the weather been so bad since!
Harpsden
