We had arranged for Elektra to be pulled out on the 18th October for the winter at “River Boatyard Ltd” Lower Quay, Gweek. I had bought new Garmin instruments last winter but couldn’t find anyone to fit them. Talking to Adam the boss of River Boatyard durring the summer, I found out they could fit them, it made sence to pull Elektra ashore for the winter and get them fitted properly. Also after pulling Elektra out, the deck stanchion inserts which I had fitted in March 2023 needed re-doing, so Adam agreed to set in epoxy.
Within a week of being pulled out of the water on the 24th, her mast had been crained off and Elektra was stored indoors for the yard to get on with the work. I spent my spare time rebedding the chain plates, deck organiser sleeves and fitting the new deck clutches
The boatyard guy (Steve) got on with the GRP and the eletronic company PR Systems (Keith) fitted the new Garmin wind, depth and log plus the new Garmin GPSMap 923 chart plotter and by the 11th November all the main winter work had been completed and Elektra was pulled back out into the yard to be stored for the winter.
The wind index mounting had been fitted too close to the mast head light to fit the index into it. So l made and fitted an extra aluminium plate to move the mounting forward.
The winter work had started quickly and a lot of the work had been completed by mid November but there were still jobs which l was going to do while Elektra is ashore this winter, watch this space for next post.
Love Sailing 