Rhiannon sails again!

[Tim O]

Anyone who has seen some of my occasional posts over the last year will maybe recall that my liveaboard Colvic Countes 33 Rhiannon has been pontoon-bound for over a year with a defunct diesel injector on the Beta 38 while I saved up money for the repair....

Well...NO MORE! Repair finally done, plus engine mountings replaced and engine realigned....this was all done superbly by Gareth Davies Marine Services

On top of that I have...
Replaced the leisure batteries...
Replaced the forestay attachment horror as seen in a post from way back....
Replaced the defunct SL Seawolf with another one picked up for £50 spares and repair, swapping gypsies with the original....only when I got it in place did I realise the studs on the new one were shorter than the old one....resulting in some "reshaping" of some interior fittings to be able to get nuts onto the shorter studs...
Sorted out the old seized u anchor swivel so I could replace the entire anchor chain with a lovely second hand length bought on here from Sarabande Tim...

and countless other small jobs (but NOT the leaking windows which need gradually taking out and refurbing...it was too nice a summer to face the hideousness of that task...no doubt I shall regret it over winter!)

The end result is...we finally went sailing....not very far yet, but we have officially LEFT THE PONTOON!:encouragement:

 

[William_H]

Congratulations or should it be commiserations on the long lay up. Certainly all boats need water flowing under them on a regular basis. They go bad standing still. ol'will

 

[sarabande]

Congratulations. You will know the boat inside and out by now, and that will be a great source of confidence and pleasure,

I hope that you both have lots of happy sea miles in future - and when you decide to head towards the N Coast of Somerset or Devon, give me a PM and I'll buy you a beer

 

[VicS]

Anyone who has seen some of my occasional posts over the last year will maybe recall that my liveaboard Colvic Countes 33 Rhiannon has been pontoon-bound for over a year with a defunct diesel injector on the Beta 38 while I saved up money for the repair....

Well...NO MORE! Repair finally done, plus engine mountings replaced and engine realigned....this was all done superbly by Gareth Davies Marine Services

On top of that I have...
Replaced the leisure batteries...
Replaced the forestay attachment horror as seen in a post from way back....
Replaced the defunct SL Seawolf with another one picked up for £50 spares and repair, swapping gypsies with the original....only when I got it in place did I realise the studs on the new one were shorter than the old one....resulting in some "reshaping" of some interior fittings to be able to get nuts onto the shorter studs...
Sorted out the old seized u anchor swivel so I could replace the entire anchor chain with a lovely second hand length bought on here from Sarabande Tim...

and countless other small jobs (but NOT the leaking windows which need gradually taking out and refurbing...it was too nice a summer to face the hideousness of that task...no doubt I shall regret it over winter!)

The end result is...we finally went sailing....not very far yet, but we have officially LEFT THE PONTOON!:encouragement:

It was an ideal summer to remove and refurb the windows !

 

[PhillM]

Well done, good for you. Fair Winds and hopefully not too leaky a winter!

 

[Tim O]

It was an ideal summer to remove and refurb the windows !

It was....but I'm lazy...and a winter of blaming myself for leaky windows will provide motivation next summer (unless of course its really nice again.....)

 

[skipmac]

and countless other small jobs (but NOT the leaking windows which need gradually taking out and refurbing...it was too nice a summer to face the hideousness of that task...no doubt I shall regret it over winter!)

Reminds me of the story of the old farmer whose son came home from town for a visit. Son arrived on a rainy day to discover the roof was leaking so asked his father why he didn't fix it. "Well," said the father, "it's raining and I would get soaking wet and probably catch my death of cold."

"It looks like it's been leaking for a while," said the son, "so why didn't you fix it yesterday when it was sunny?"

Answered the father, "Because it wasn't leaking then."