What did you do to your sailing boat today ?

Still scraping and sanding.
At least the hole in the cabin roof is ready to close up. The new hatch has gone in subsequent to this photo.
Been lucky to have had a month without any rain.

Just got the nod that the sail wardrobe is being delivered, eek, all the various components are coming in for the last 6 weeks stage.
I went for furlers on both the headsail and gennaker with a snuffer for the kite and the staysail on hanks for the inner forestay.
The following pic is a shot of the facnor flat deck furler from a sistership for the headsail, I wanted as much luff length as possible, I hope they are as good as some reports make out. Note the drum is made with a flat webbing, vs the typical rope . Tight, but neat !

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Edit: sorry I don'know how to fix this stupid bloody upside down issue .
Edit edit: Ahah! Is that better?

Hasn't got the same appeal when you have to stand on your head to view it properly....

I know that problem!! It's like when you're trying to read with an iPad lying down and it keeps rotating the screen upright...grr.
I am trying to keep the boat single handed capable, hence the furlers. I even girled out and went for an electric winch for the main halyard. On the 12.50, the 4 winches all sit on the cabin roof, none on the cockpit sides , so with the wheels I'll have to use the auto helm to set sail trim or tacking when singlehanded . The traveller though is double ended and is right next to each wheel. Shot of cockpit showing winches . Unfortunately, the electric winch does block the rear starboard cabin door from opening fully.
Can't wait this is in Combrit .

Hi Cisco,
Yacht name will be Fusion. Brisbane to Gladstone in 2016...mmmm. that I could be talked into I reckon. Yes to manual override.
The headsail and staysail go to barber haulers, then to the rear set of winches, which is a new setup for me.
I am used to cars on tracks, so I am looking forward to the tuning capability transitioning between sails.






It was funny regards the toilet paper, we had it down to protect the brand new boat, and of course it all stuck to your shoes on the dewy deck (this was early) . Ended up with wet toilet paper all over the deck, made a horrific mess.
Agree re: Lewmars, put a set on the existing boat, and one fell apart and spat the pawl over the side on me, not impressed.

Edit: Sorry, just read the reference to staysail. Yes, this is the cool part, can it three sail reach?? Will be good if I can.

Hey Shaggs shes looking magic !!!!!!!!! those barber haulers will be good ..... we have been experimenting with a similar thing while using an oversize #1 ...... they work a treat !!

how is the excitement level now ? building ..... out of 10 ? im guessing > 7

painted my booms second coat and drove down to the boat and started cleaning thew gull Chit off my deck Then fitted a 60 watt solar panel to keep my batteries happy and my pocket so they last longer
Tonight pulled the Furlex 100s apart cleaned and counted the balls inside the races top swivel tonight have to find the right grease tomorrow

Went to go to boat but driven back by heavy rain and lightning overhead. Two hours later went out, mainly because it seemed my wife had dropped my wallet there last week. Found it.

Installed the reinforcing arms on each side of the dodger frame down to the coaming. Walking around the dodger is now sooooooooooo good!

Installed a few more press studs and moved a couple of fasteners in the rain in time for the southerly tonight.

Got absolutely soaked on the row home then jumped over a couple of little rivulets on the way back up the beach from a stormwater runoff lake at the back of the beach. 10 seconds later the rivulets were flowing and digging deeper. 30 seconds later they were a metre deep each and would have dragged you out into the bay and I wouldn't have got past. another 30 seconds and the river was 3 metres wide and a metre and half deep. Was impressive to watch. I've seen video of guys surfing 'river' waves created by a lake emptying into the sea.

Hi SandS,
The Aso is made with Superkote 90 155m2, aka 0.9 ounce. A bit on the heavy side, but to take advantage of that beam, I really don't want to be dropping the kite just when it is getting interesting. Uses a snuffer rather than a furler, but there is a 104m2 gennaker on a Profurl furler, you know the ones that stay on the sail when you drop it? Another new one for me.
Yes, the inner forestay is for sails, I went for a 26m2 staysail on hanks. The intent to change down gears as someone put it from the headsail at 44m2. The headsail is the same cloth, Hydranet and is on the furler you can see in the pic. As the wind picks up, it should be a matter of simply furling the headsail, and hauling up the staysail, or vice versa. As Cisco mentioned, I can go for a couple of hanked headsails, and also three sail reaching, wahoo!

No symmetrical pole for mine, that is another first for me. The left hand sheet you can see on the deck is the carbon sprit outhaul, it runs back through the rear of the sprit to a hardpoint on the other side of the pole opposite the sheet block. The next sheet is the staysail downhaul and inner forestay hard point. This is a really neat but complex setup that runs down into the spinnaker well (that is the chamber you can see behind the anchor well), I'll have to let you know when I go over how to commission how it all works again, I've forgotten how it all connects together.

Yep, you nailed it, one of the big appeals is exactly that, no major outlays except for the usual maintenance. It is pretty much optioned complete at delivery, I won't be able to afford anything like food let alone more boat spendy's for a while, and I think my better half would lynch me if I did! Like all of us poor yachties, this ended up taking a lot longer than I thought, this one has been 12 years to squirrel away the funds, so now being able to spend it is enormous fun.
It is sobering how much more you could spend though, for example I could easily add another 10 boat dollars to the NKE, or another 8 bd for a Code 0, (I only have one Code 5 gennaker) but I had to stop somewhere I suppose

I apologise to all Seabreezers, I don't want to hijack the thread, but it is hard not to answer some of the questions without rambling on a bit (character flaw methinks) . I hope this is not too annoying to anyone.
SB

Stick with a single pack like Toplac etc. Two pack will crack if that's a normal carvel construction. Two pack does not like movement.

+1 Red lead.

I would just use one of the aluminium based silver primers. If you need to do some minor filling on the under water bits mix some garden lime into the hydroseal till its a putty like consistency and smooth in.