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Date:Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:55:00 GMT
Sails
We've got our sails back
Today we have our full compliment of sails. The boat has always been full
of 50 year old suprises but this one was one of the finer ones. When we
purchased the boat we had 3 sails: Evolution main, genoa, and mizzen.
Then there were bags of old Hood tan bark sails full of rat feces and
smelling of rat nests and urin. We pretty much wrote them off and thought
we'd use them to make bags, buckets and patches. But we took them to Hodges
street sails here in Oriental to clean them up so we could use the fabric
and decided to have them inspected to see if they were worth fixing. Low
and behold they were all in pretty good shape. So we had them cleaned and
given to Inner Banks for repair. To day we have now: A heavy main, a light
main, a genoa, an asymetric, a Yankee/Blast reacher, a storm sail and a
mizzen. All in beautiful tan bark! With our cleaned up teak decks they're
going to be a sight to behold! I can't wait to get her out sailing and take
some pictures with our new Drone! Then we can finally make our boat card!
We are coming down to our last few days here at Zimmerman's before going on
our maiden off shore test run. The cabin top is almost finished with
gelcoat and fiberglass filling the old holes. The mizzen is getting a new
sheeve for the halyard. We're going to figure out how to rig a temp forstay
to hank on the yankee, storm jib and the reacher/asymetric and then we'll be
off.
Yesterday we tested the new drone, got a few pictures of the top of the mast
and went to the park to practice flying and filming. It's much easier than
I expected. I tried to fly out about 500-1000 yards to a sail boat on the
river but couldn't quite make it due to high winds. The software warned me
to turn around because the return home function was not working in those
winds. I'm excited to be able to put up video footage, so stay tuned for
links to our patreon and youtube channels which are coming soon!
We have a lot to do today so I'll cut it short here and post this.
S.