S/Y Linnea

Even though we want to be able to sail Linnea during wintertime it won’t happen this year. (When I raced an optimist dinghy as a kid snow was never a problem if we just taped our boots to our oilskins real tight.)

Actually it sees like we might not get any more sailing at all before it’s time to take Linnea up. Maybe if I go up the mast and we get some strong winds, we might be tempted to try out how the sheeting arrangement works when reefed.

Anyway. On Sunday in three weeks  it’s time to take her up and before that we need to take the rig down. With a junk rig, unbending the sail is the hard part but the mast should be easy if it hasn’t swelled so it is totally stuck in deck or at the mast foot.

Now we are actually more motivated to continue with the interior than going out for more sail trials. Sure we need to continue to tweak the rig a bit. But it actually works fine as it is.

Important headlines on the to-do-list:

• Making new window frame patterns for the steering station. (Should we use plywood or mdf?)
• Mounting the head tank under the bunk in the aft cabin so we can finish here.
• Ordering a Dickinson Pacific stove.
• Ordering bow rollers.
• Ordering water tanks (anyone have experience with soft ones?)
• Ordering a diesel tank for the fore peak.
• Start to think about electrics.
• Find a way to make the deck box lids watertight.
• Finishing the companionway hatch. (Started this one yesterday)
• Put up a new video for Ricard to watch.

As you can see we will have stuff to write about in the blog during winter as well!