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| Swallows over Porthmadog! |
Suprisingly difficult to photograph on the wing !
Friday 30 August 2013
Aerial visitor
Apologies for this dodgy photo of one of the swallows, wheeling around the boat at Porthmadog
Suprisingly difficult to photograph on the wing !
Suprisingly difficult to photograph on the wing !
Sunday 25 August 2013
Saturday 24 August 2013
We've miscalculated the tide in Porthmadog!
We'll have to wait till the tide comes in a bit until we can get to the yacht club bar...
Porthmadog revisited...
Tim takes the helm.
Roll on the Madoc Yacht Club.
Running along the buoyed channel...
From our visiting mooring in the harbour
Friday 23 August 2013
Navigation old and new:
A well balanced binnacle - chart plotter to port and steering compass to starboard.
Thanks to Tim and Emily for their help ( and Tim for fixing the VHF antenna)
Porthmadog beckons.
( thanks again to Tyree Fabrications of Sheffield for some super stainless fabrication )
Sunday 11 August 2013
Good company and some succesful work
A great weekend in our home port - even if we didn't leave the mooring. It was mainly spent upgrading and repairing some of the minor damage suffered last weekend !
We had an excellent Saturday night with Joe and our neighbouring berth holder, who un-fortunately arrived too late for dinner, but not too late for a glass of very passable claret and some good conversation.
It was good to see the Autohlem successfully power up (just a minor tweak there) The wind instrument problems seem to relate to not carrying out the linearisation of the anenometer during the calibration process (whatever that is ?) Next time out, we need to do the bumps and turns required for to properly calibrate.
New mooring lines fore and aft have at last been respliced and fixed on, and the main sheet traveller has been repaired and modified to give us some more control - as shown in the photo.
I think this should see us out for the rest of the season (...although if Santa was passing the Barton store on his way to our house!)
Most importantly of all, the loo brush is now also fully secured in the heads - all crew please note.
We had an excellent Saturday night with Joe and our neighbouring berth holder, who un-fortunately arrived too late for dinner, but not too late for a glass of very passable claret and some good conversation.
It was good to see the Autohlem successfully power up (just a minor tweak there) The wind instrument problems seem to relate to not carrying out the linearisation of the anenometer during the calibration process (whatever that is ?) Next time out, we need to do the bumps and turns required for to properly calibrate.
New mooring lines fore and aft have at last been respliced and fixed on, and the main sheet traveller has been repaired and modified to give us some more control - as shown in the photo.
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| The new traveller / control lines |
I think this should see us out for the rest of the season (...although if Santa was passing the Barton store on his way to our house!)
Most importantly of all, the loo brush is now also fully secured in the heads - all crew please note.
Monday 5 August 2013
An action packed return to Pwllheli
Something for everyone in return leg.
Starting out sunny and flat it soon became overcast with winds freshening, backing and some squally rain.
A maginficent dolphin encounter as we passed Sarn Baedrig - with a pod of four breaking the surface line abreast swimming alongside and diving under the bow wave. Sorry - no pictures this time.
Many thanks to Bill for excellent work at the helm.
The weather closed in from this point onwards, with more rain and higher more variable winds, culminating in rather a hot landing at Pw. Many thanks to Ian of Rebellion for his help on hand!
And forgot to mention the puffins we saw - flying and diving into the swell !
Starting out sunny and flat it soon became overcast with winds freshening, backing and some squally rain.
A maginficent dolphin encounter as we passed Sarn Baedrig - with a pod of four breaking the surface line abreast swimming alongside and diving under the bow wave. Sorry - no pictures this time.
Many thanks to Bill for excellent work at the helm.
The weather closed in from this point onwards, with more rain and higher more variable winds, culminating in rather a hot landing at Pw. Many thanks to Ian of Rebellion for his help on hand!
And forgot to mention the puffins we saw - flying and diving into the swell !
Saturday 3 August 2013
Hello Aberystwyth!
Our first visit to Aberyswyth - great sail down - up to 7 knots over the ground and some lumpy seas.
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