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.

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.