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[FullCircle]

no boat fixing today, but as of yesterday afternoon,we have the final design in place for the new saloon table and the enhanced joinery to all the saloon locker doors.
Even managed to sort out the new food locker drawer slides.

So not too disastrous, but would have liked to get some other stuff done today on the boat job list.

 

[sailorman]

i went down yesterday intending to stop over.
the yard had already removed the main Sl boom ect ( no instruction from me ) so i was well ahead of schedule, i finished winterising the engine for haul-out this week.
standing rigging to be replaced after 12 years is the main job on the list i havnt written.
as the weather was rubbish + jobs done, i went home

 

[MoodySabre]

I've had a good week designing a holding tank and where to squeeze it without losing much locker space. Bespoke tank and all the bits ££££

Also going for a cockpit enclosure this year but quotes are a bit scary

Still, it's only money

Sheila's birthday today and family staying so I'm on good behaviour

 

[Athene V30]

About 70% of the rewiring done over the weekend . Still got to put the new wires in the mast and fit then wire in the instruments but engine / switches / domestics done.

Had a bit of a mishap removing the wire for the steaming / deck light and lost the messenger but think I have a cunning plan to recover the situation!

 

[Wunja]

I wrote up my list - it includes about eight things. I ordered some stuff on-line (compass and bilge-pump) but it is back ordered, so the only progress over the weekend was to finish gluing up the washboards and sand them down. I decided that it would be a good idea to check them on the boat, before getting carried away with the varnish application.

I did fold up the main sail properly and measured the sleeve where the missing batten was... how does a batten go missing? I would have expected to notice if it fell out whilst using the boat - or is there a black market for hot battens in NL?

 

[FullCircle]

I wrote up my list - it includes about eight things. I ordered some stuff on-line (compass and bilge-pump) but it is back ordered, so the only progress over the weekend was to finish gluing up the washboards and sand them down. I decided that it would be a good idea to check them on the boat, before getting carried away with the varnish application.

I did fold up the main sail properly and measured the sleeve where the missing batten was... how does a batten go missing? I would have expected to notice if it fell out whilst using the boat - or is there a black market for hot battens in NL?

Battens are made from anti matter. I lost the top one twice on Full Circle, never did see the going of them.

 

[Wunja]

Battens are made from anti matter. I lost the top one twice on Full Circle, never did see the going of them.

So they don't even make the satisfying, though normally expensive 'SPLOSH' that most boat kit makes when it falls over board?

 

[AliM]

If they were antimatter, it would be a lot more than a whoosh or splosh - more like an atom bomb! Still, should get you past Bernie at Burnham week!

 

[FullCircle]

If they were antimatter, it would be a lot more than a whoosh or splosh - more like an atom bomb! Still, should get you past Bernie at Burnham week!

I bow to your superior knowledge of the laws of physics.
However, boat equipment is driven by abominations of the known laws, which is one of the reasons for odd failure modes, and unfathomable replacement costs.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

Battens are made from anti matter. I lost the top one twice on Full Circle, never did see the going of them.

IN much the same way that electricity illuminates both a brothel and the vicar's tea party the Universal Law of unknown batten loss doesn't seem to differentiate between different types of sailor.

Unplanned mainsheet car disintegration with unplanned gybe's does at least give one a visual experience.

 

[FullCircle]

Unplanned mainsheet car disintegration with unplanned gybe's does at least give one a visual experience.

Oh my mainsheet car, jolly expensive Harken thing, exploded on a planned gybe. The balls are made of Torlon, whatever that is.

 

[Wunja]

The balls are made of Torlon, whatever that is.

Probably nylon with a small smelling pistake, also made out out anti matter, are very soft when underload, but instantly harden when flying freely towards the crew

 

[sailorman]

Probably nylon with a small smelling pistake, also made out out anti matter, are very soft when underload, but instantly harden when flying freely towards the crew

http://www.solvayadvancedpolymers.com/products/bybrand/torlon/0,,329-2-0,00.htm

 

[FullCircle]

Probably nylon with a small smelling pistake, also made out out anti matter, are very soft when underload, but instantly harden when flying freely towards the crew

They also pass through solid objects as I found them in all sorts of unlikely places when trying to find them. Like inside lockers, down the galley sink. How did they get through the coach roof and the hatch?

 

[Wunja]

http://www.solvayadvancedpolymers.com/products/bybrand/torlon/0,,329-2-0,00.htm

Never lets facts get in the way of relieving a boring afternoon..

Anyhow they are both polyamides just one has an extra iamide. Near enough for me!

 

[Leighb]

Probably nylon with a small smelling pistake, also made out out anti matter, are very soft when underload, but instantly harden when flying freely towards the crew

And when you want some more your local swindlery will be "out of stock"