Danny Jo
Well-Known Member
Freestyle had a stab at drying out beside* the harbour wall in Caernarfon yesterday. Wasn't quite dry enough for wellies, so operations were conducted from the tender.
The answer to the problem is shown here:
I noticed that the sacrificial anodes had deteriorated a lot more than the ones I put on last year. The forward shaft anode was loose and the prop anode had eroded down to a little ring.
I had a spare prop anode on board, but no spare shaft anodes - shucks.
*I say beside the harbour wall, rather than against, because try as we might (spinnaker halyard winched as tight as I dared, staysail halyard ditto, warp from anchor winch, warp from starboard mid cleat winched tight, warp from starboard stern cleat and man overboard lifting gear from mast to shore) we could (edit) not (edit) persuade Freestyle to lean at all, except backwards onto her skeg.
This shot shows the fender against which she was supposed to lean:
Edit: Oh, and the ending was even happier, because I also did the unspeakable and risked an "ugly" reboot of Freestyle's 20 year-old Philips AP Navigator (which had been driving me up the wall by adding 8000 miles to every waypoint route I entered). The manual says there are three kinds of reset (good, bad and ugly) and more or less says you go for an ugly one at your own risk. Now at last I have a cockpit display of course over ground, speed over ground, and bearing and distance to next waypoint without (a) having to enter each waypoint manually onto the cockpit repeater or (b) messing around with a handheld.
The answer to the problem is shown here:
I noticed that the sacrificial anodes had deteriorated a lot more than the ones I put on last year. The forward shaft anode was loose and the prop anode had eroded down to a little ring.
I had a spare prop anode on board, but no spare shaft anodes - shucks.
*I say beside the harbour wall, rather than against, because try as we might (spinnaker halyard winched as tight as I dared, staysail halyard ditto, warp from anchor winch, warp from starboard mid cleat winched tight, warp from starboard stern cleat and man overboard lifting gear from mast to shore) we could (edit) not (edit) persuade Freestyle to lean at all, except backwards onto her skeg.
This shot shows the fender against which she was supposed to lean:
Edit: Oh, and the ending was even happier, because I also did the unspeakable and risked an "ugly" reboot of Freestyle's 20 year-old Philips AP Navigator (which had been driving me up the wall by adding 8000 miles to every waypoint route I entered). The manual says there are three kinds of reset (good, bad and ugly) and more or less says you go for an ugly one at your own risk. Now at last I have a cockpit display of course over ground, speed over ground, and bearing and distance to next waypoint without (a) having to enter each waypoint manually onto the cockpit repeater or (b) messing around with a handheld.
