Its been far too long since the last time I had Kairos out of the water for a scrub and antifouling, so she had quite the oyster and barnacle farm under there. The silt laden and often brackish water here in the upper reaches of the estuary seem to encourage...
Comfort, and I think I’ve said this before, can be a whole lot of small things that add up to an elimination of all the annoying things that just don’t fit. Kairos helm seat is quite high, it leaves the legs dangling about a foot ( or two feet if I were being...
Planning to go cruising is one thing, getting ready to go is another. The electrical system in this old ship of mine is now 47 years old and pretty near everything in her is electric. The original wiring is domestic rather than tinned marine grade, and over the past...
I’ve a boat in for repair. Not my usual thing, but in this case the customer wants his boat ready to go for the nearly upon us summer holiday season, and “boat yards” aren’t into doing small repairs on small sailing boats. Particularly not at this time of...
Its springtime here, the temperatures at night are still a bit chilly, especially up on the mountain lakes but the daytimes are lovely. We had great weather, the sailing ranged from drifting conditions to really gusty, and as often the case on a lake with high...
Mast making. Reinforcing an aluminium tube spar with a birdmouth inner plus solid blocking. I’ve been given a mast blank, a 5m long x 75, od, 5mm wall thickness chunk of T6 temper aluminium tube. It was bought to be the main mast for a Pathfinder, but life got in...
