Görans Video

Found a CD in my mailbox from Göran today. (Thanks!) So I made one more video. Enjoy! (Wish I were able to add some music to it, but that is probably totally illegal.)

I have been using JayCut to edit and publish the video instead of Youtube. Works great.

Edit: as of today, Tuesday, august 5, Jaycut is down. Will be up in a couple of days. Too bad, as I even got a soundtrack from Stuart now!

New video: Sailing from the inside 2

Sorry about the crappy quality. It’s my mobile phone…

As you can see we had both light and not so light winds.

New video: Sailing from the inside

It’s not that tidy. But here is a small video from the interior of Linnea. While sailing. As you can see, the final finish of the inside is not there yet. But it works fine for some weeks of summer sailing. The reefed sail is badly set. We will try to do something about it.

Gone sailing

It was a bit nervous. The first sail of the year is bound to be bad. I remember one special year with an old boat of ours. Disaster. Rosehip soup all over the brand new main sheet. That stain does not go away! So the first sail, you want the wind to be perfect, everything double checked, some strong people on board. The kids stay on the jetty. Let’s just say we did the opposite this year. A bunch of relatives joined us, we were eleven people on board, some with quite dubious sailing experience.

So, what happened? Shipwreck? Disaster? Wounded limbs? No. The whole event was… uneventful in a good way. The only demanding maneuver was dropping two people off at the steam ship quay with a lot of swell involved.

So, here are the pictures:

Sailing

Ida in her berth. No mattress yet.

Interior, cleaned a bit.

Steering station from the inside. Impossible to get a good camera view.

Starboard view.

Navigation table.

Ida at the bow.

Idas new favorite spot.

(R. I have the goods.)

Is that a mast?

OK, just so you understand why people are intimidated when they ask if the bamboo is a mast and we answer that we use it for battens. Ida got this offcut for making mugs of. But it says something about the size.

Batten waste

Some picture progress

Today I snapped some pictures of the progress.

The Deck with sail and dinghy.

Steering station portlights

Bow roller and sail.

We haven’t adjusted the lazy jacks yet, so the yard and sail bundle has a little drooping angle. Notice the new thick bamboo. We put it only on one side of the sail, used no keep battens. Let’s see how that works out.

Tomorrow we are aiming for a trial sail. A bit nervous about that.

Fun with the new battens

My hands are oh so sore. Tying battens to a junksail (actually with these battens it’s the other way around, you tie the sail to the battens) is bloody business. If you can stand the swollen fingers it is great fun to walk around with the bamboo, thicker than my over arm, until someone asks “what is that? a mast?” Then you say, “no, it’s a batten”, and they think you are making fun of them and walk away quietly.

Hoisting the red sail is a lot better.  People were actually shouting over the bay how beutiful she was.

I took the camera, but had no time to take pictures.

Tomorrow we will rig the lazy jacks, sheet, etc. Will we sail on friday? It would be fun.

Fenix in the Summer Isles

A picture of Fenix, a junk rigged boat we met in the Summer Isles, west of Ullapool some years ago with our old boat. We were heading north up around the Orkney islands and Ben was coming south from the Faroes. Funny thing is that he lent out a cruising guide for Orkney to my parents earlier that summer when they met him, so we could return it, since we made some copies. Anyway, the boat seemed to sail real well. When we got to Ullapool some kind of border police interviewed us for quite some time about if we met some other boat in the Summer Isles. We didn’t give you away Ben!

Junk rigged Fenix

Mast

So, my mother and I raised the mast today. It is really easy when noone have to run around deck trying to get those wires attatched.

We changed the halyard from three strand to a braided one for less friction between the parts. And also changed to a wooden block, as you can see. And put some new tar on the servings of the grommets and whippings.

Mast crane

Linnea from above

Mast top with new wooden block that will hopefully give a better lead

Moldy battens?

Some of the bamboo battens grow mildew last year. Will try some treatment this year.

But what is best?

Paint? Varnish? Cuprinol? Nothing?

Suggestions, please!