I had been over to Neal at Kernow Covers to pick up Elektra’s winter cockpit cover, Neal had the cover all summer but hadn’t got around to doing the work needed, he had agreed to do as I waited as he needed to check with me what was needed.
The forecast was for heavy rain, I had planned to replace the cockpit trims and was glad to get aboard before the rain came in. As it happed the rain didn’t come in before 3pm, I could have worked elsewhere but once I had started this job I was going to finish.
All went well and having done the job the day was still dry so I removed the cockpit encloser, frame, dodgers and the seasonal sprayhood, replacing with the winter sprayhood before the rain started. Then zipping in the winter cockpit cover I was beginning to get wet. I decided to leave all the canvas work aboard to avoid it getting wet. I made my way forward to the ladder only to find it had fallen and was lying in the water beside Elektra. On the plus side I had attached the dinghy so I could get off via the stern boarding ladder using the dinghy.
I was down to Elektra a few days later to remove the boom and some halyards. With all the wet winter weather most lines and running rigging goes green so l try to remove as much as possible.
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