Thursday 25 April 2013

Getting ready to go off again

We aim to be off sailing again as soon as possible after Helen finishes work in July.  We went down to the boat in April to get her ready and to fit proper bow and stern netting to make it easier in the Med for bow and stern too moorings (something that would not have figured much in our original plans).  No definite plans yet on where we will go but the basic options are Greece or Spain via the Balearics (we are told there are plenty of anchorages in the Balearics).

Picture above is of the new netting beam and netting in the bow.  Unfortunately the roller reefing is in a direct line between the existing anchor roller and a putative roller on the netting beam so we are going to make a removable flap in the netting to allow the anchor to be deployed from the existing roller and see how we get on.