Season 2 - 2014 - Growing comfortable on C. Bay
Boat came out in mid December 2013 ...snow..snow....snowed again. White got us on either end of the winter. Snowed 6 inches before we got the cover in place. Although the plastic shrink went on late (due to snow slowing the crew down), with all the snowfall this year it was still well worth it. And when the cover had to come off to ready the boat for launch, Winter promptly ignored Spring, and 8 inches of snow arrived in mid March. I went out and shoveled a mother of a slippery deck - 12 feet off the ground. Not the best way to start a sailing season.
LESSON: We will haul and cover Iolair a few weeks earlier. Launch a few weeks later. No point in pushing the winter sailing. A deck sitting under inches of slow melting snow, can't be a good thing on an older boat that needs to have the fittings re-bed. (Guess who's learning how to re-bed deck fittings?) With 4-5 more winters ahead, Kel and I will purchase a custom cover and get it on earlier in November.
Lots happened during the 2013 season, and I need to go back through and capture highlights and clean up posts. Moving forward, I'll use this blog to capture stuff. I'll post maintenance and sailing...and maybe even figure out how to keep them separate in this blog space.
LESSON: We will haul and cover Iolair a few weeks earlier. Launch a few weeks later. No point in pushing the winter sailing. A deck sitting under inches of slow melting snow, can't be a good thing on an older boat that needs to have the fittings re-bed. (Guess who's learning how to re-bed deck fittings?) With 4-5 more winters ahead, Kel and I will purchase a custom cover and get it on earlier in November.
Lots happened during the 2013 season, and I need to go back through and capture highlights and clean up posts. Moving forward, I'll use this blog to capture stuff. I'll post maintenance and sailing...and maybe even figure out how to keep them separate in this blog space.
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