The Harbour master there was very helpful in advising the most fitting and cost effective mooring.

So the guys at Abersoch boat yard gently put her in at high tide and we headed out to her new mooring.

Good to be back on the water and heading over to Hafan

Whist I don’t think I have had any issues with fumes I did notice that the open well was acting as a sea anchor, catching a lot of water as we made headway. So it seam reasonable that the fix for one problem would do well for the other.

Before we head back to the coast to launch I pre build the gasket to the well using 6mm nylon sheet and 6mm rubber sheeting both from eBay, oh and also the measurement you guy all supplied from the blog posting!

Did it work? Well once we launched we motored into a strong headwind, setting the revs just above half on engine would normally give me 4-5 knots with the gastket in place we were getting 6-7 knots!!!

The rope’s now pass through the extra pulleys and up to the cleats, so I can pull vertically on the rope for better purchase.

I’ve just spent the day working on Nim and come home (180 miles) only to realise I forgot to measure the opening of the engine well. I need the max dimensions of the hole at the bottom. If anyone’s got their T7 off the water could you let me know?

Thanks in advance

Phil

Under heavy winds we had real problems sailing with the genoa semi furled to balance the reefed main and in the end sailed on main only.

So this year I wanted the option of a second hanked on jib without having to drop the genoa (never a good idea in high winds!), which we could control through the self tacker.

To this end I have been designing a deck fitting to attach a wired jib or second stay to, that I can then swing back to the mast when not in use.

A few things to bear in mind:

1. The deck is not strong enough to take the pull of a stay so I will need to copy in some way the existing system
2. It needs to be far enough back to give room for the furler
3. but far enough forward to not foul the anchor well.

The plan to use the same system as the current forestay.

Fitting it back required alot of pushing a shoving and shouting to get it lined up but eventually it went back in…

Only to find the “beefed up” pull rope was too stiff to pass through the eye so the board would not lock down into place, at this point the camera went away while I scratched my head for a solution.

In the end I replaced the first 18 inches of rope with running rig rire with two spliced hoops, one passed though the board heavily coated in shrink fit tubbing (several layers) so it wouldn’t chafe the board or the housing the second of which the rope was spliced onto.

Once done and refitted the rope was pass back down into the housing and spliced to the rear of the board to give a continuous loop so there is no ends to lose!

This seemed an ideal position to to raise the mast as she was at ground level and stable. Raising this time was as easly as every with the fitted winch but the battery was on its last legs so it was low going.

Once up I got started on the split backstay, only to find the wire running rig I wanted to use was cut too short the day before. So with the addition of a small wire strop and the base which positioned the block off the deck all was fine.