boatwork

I am glad all this reposting has stopped. i did put a comment to that effect foilermoth but it didn't appear to get past moderation. i feel oppressed lol.

a bit of boat work going on atm which is no excuse to not bloog really. two weeks to go till the start of my season and time to do the first real servicing session on my boat since it was built. all in all it has held up will for an amateur home build... so far...

the list of maintenance/mod jobs:

• replace 6mm fibreglass push rod with a 10x1 carbon pultrusion (50% comp.)
  
• fit a "dial" to the push rod (50% comp.)
• repair some cracking in the deck edge (80% comp.)
• replace tramp lacing (0% comp.)
• replace deck grip with foam (0% comp.)
• affix the mast ram with epoxy+glue powder rather than the duct tape and sikflex (100% comp.)
• tramps to sail maker to shorten, and add cut outs to moving hiking straps outboard.(0% comp.)
• shorten hiking straps (0% comp.)
• new boom webbing (0% comp.)
• take gantry to sail maker for a monofilm fairing with a velcro pocket (0% comp.)
• sail to sail maker to repair batten pockets and recut pocket opening at hounds. (0% comp.)
• new vang system, but more on that in a later post - a little secret squirrel, will post when it works. (40% comp.)
• New wand to flap linkage system (very secret squirrel till it is actually on the boat and working, we're both a bit excited about it but want to have a working conventional system first).