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Reinstalled my sail cover lazy jack system this morning. Two full days in my sail room re sewing the seams. I had to take it off to replace the zip again but decided to use clips and seat belt tape instead. Lots of repairs and sewed all the seams with double straight stitching in blue thread. The original was all zig-zag thread and just wears away. The white thread visible is the original stuff I did not replace. Added a couple of loops either side to hold the bight of the reefing lines to keep them a little tidier. Next time I will just make a new one!
Put together a nice modular system for my bilge pump and lights. As my boat's pretty basic on the electrical front, it lets me easily disconnect/reconnect things to only have them on as needed and lets me pull out the battery for charging onshore if the solar panel doesn't manage to keep up.
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Table moved forward and a new section of lounge fitted next will be the cream macro suede leather!
I love boats!
Finally the upolstery fairy made a start and the galley extension finaly started although the pics are not upright!
Cut and shut is going well this is what it looks like when I'm healing right over horizontal!
Hey SA ,do you get bored just hanging around on your yacht , and start renovating for the hell of it ? Or do you think its too heavy , and this is the solution ? .............just asking 
SA, I can assure you ya not the only one doing stuff to boats, it's just since shaggy started the boat pics thread it's not quite the same looking at pics of toilets, fuel tanks etc 
I fitted the stove top and coffee machine trim fitted and first coat of varnish on today, The upolstery fairy has been hard at work re-working the corners of the back bolsters and the design is now finalised! I love boats!
Why do pictures end up upside down on Seabreeze it would be good if they could address this issue!
Me too Southace, I always struggle with orientation from my IPhone. I view the photo on the IPhone and take a screenshot of it to fix it!
Finished lashing the mainsail on after fitting the new boom, yay!
Big thanks to Allspars in Brisbane, quick turnaround (3 weeks from go to whoa including powdercoating), priced well and strong, so I'm pretty chuffed with the whole process.
Biggest changes:
-they've run the mainsheet out of the boom in the rear third, where the old one used to be all encased in the boom (the 3:1 is still internal). I'm unsure if it's less load on the mainsheet block as the angle is less?
-the rear sheave cassette mounting, holding the reef and outhaul blocks, is much stronger.
After three odd months it was nice to take her out sailing again. The bum was so dirty we were down a couple of knots of boat speed, but fun none the less.
I take pics from my canon g3x then down load them to iPad for posting, seems only Seabreeze forums has a issue with this?
Shaggy, I'm far from giving any experts advice but if your mainsheet left the underside of the boom perhaps 0.5m +/- ? ahead of what is shown, would that help to avoid the possibility of your previous problem of the mainsheet snagging the wheel.and not putting any undue pressure on the winches.
Fitted the new suede upholstery now I'm playing around with black front runner it's looking smick I think!
As I crossed the bar today I engaged the windvane. Boat steered fine but the blade seemed to be acting weird. Wandered back for a closer look and noticed the push rod was not connected! SS split rig was missing. Boat was going to windward because it was just balanced. Rummaged through my fishing gear for a snap fitting off a swivel to jury rig the connection. Now I will have to remember to take some spares. Wonder how long that snap hook will be there.
On anchor tonight seen the moon rise genset running and heater on! and having a house party with the new upolstery thank god I don't drink red wine!
G,day, this weekend I painted the Argie 15 dinghy I've been building over winter.
G'day Hort,
She looks beautiful mate, congrats! Hope you've had time to stop, have a beer and just stare at it!
Fitted all the winches, deck orgasers, jib tracks, boom, sails and shook down the new rig, just the headsail for now.
All went fine. Ready to hoist the main next time out.
