Fresh bread this morning!

Made some fresh bread this morning using this recipe which I have adapted from John Vigor's books (ackowledgements):

Mix 3 cups of self raising flour with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 2 teaspoons of sugar

Add a small bottle of beer - supermarket 'belgian' type lager sold in stubbies will do

Pour the mixture in to a greased bread tin

Cook in the oven until its done

On a comparative scale , delicious!

Our neighbour upstream

A lovely boat on the next pair of piles upstream from us. It's not clear whether they have brought this boat from the Isle of Wight or the owner is just commenting on two of their female acquaintances...

Pwllheli harbour

The cluster of buildings and slipways along the south side give the harbour it's character as a working harbour. The rnli is on the right. 

Electrical work

I've just been doing some electrical work for Annabella, on the bench at home, which involved soldering on connections for some not particulalry small components. Is it me, or in the past 25 years have the connexions got smaller- and rather more fuzzy?

New neighbours on the pilings

Rebellion

Welcome to our new neighbours, a spanking new UFO34 called 'Rebellion'. (Thanks to Barney for his photo)
I think we're going to get along...

The refurb goes on....

 Work to update the interior goes on. 

Prototype locker front

The orignal locker fronts are now too frail to hold the screws of the hinges. We have tried out a new replacement, using the original profiled foam but new fabric, expertly applied by Lynn. Result - success and four   three more to do.

  

We have also added some coir matting to both the forepeak and aft cabin sole. Good looking and feels great under foot!

Coir matting to the fore peak + aft cabin sole

Dolphin encounter

We've encountered dolphins quite regularly off the Lleyn peninsula, or rather they've come and found us. This must have be one of the most exciting episodes, partly because it took place in such clear conditions but also how close they came and their sheer exuberance.

Sorry about the rickety quality of the video, I wasn't really expecting to take it !

Porthmadog to Pwllheli

We thought the excitement of the day would be a bit of nervy manoeuvre in the harbour, to turn around and face out to sea. The conditions were beautiful, even if we were still deprived on wind...

Clive - enjoying the bright conditions

You can see from the photo that even the wind generator has stopped rotating !

Trip to Porthmadog

Beautiful sailing in the afternoon from Pwllheli.
Unfortunately there were very light airs, so not much sailing as such, but we did get out the mizzen out to see how that worked.

Although its only about 7nm between fairway buoys, there is quite a long buoyed channel leading into the harbour at Porthmadog. For fin keel boats like ours it can be very dangerous to stray out of the channel!

The scenery is stunning - especially on a sunny day like that - and there is always a warm welcome and a cold beer at the yacht club.

The fairway buoy for Porthmadog

             

About midway along the buoyed channel

Crew Notice : Porth Madog

Weather for the weekend is looking good. 
Who's on for a trip to Porth Madog?