By the 16th of March the weather was looking up and the sun had showed it self, so I spent Monday and Tuesday scrubbing Elektra’s bottom and washing her freeboard and decks. On the Wednesday, I did what I said I wouldn’t ever do again and that was to give her a coat of antifouling on her mud berth (the last time I had done this back in 2018, the mud was 12-18″ deep and it was quite a workout just walking around her in the mud). But this year the mud was almost gone from around her bow area and only 4-6inchs at her rudder, so was a lot easier to do.
On Thursday I refitted her boom, mainsheet and kicker, along with some other internal jobs. On Friday I painted her bot,top line and on Saturday recoated her teak and bent on her sails, On Sunday I refitted her dodgers, by then she was quite a good way along for the coming season. But we hadn’t any plans to move her down the river until the weekend 17-20th April. We had a brief chat about taking her down the river early but in the end decided to stick to our orginal plan.
I still with a few mainly internal jobs, after the week of great weather, and I had 4 weeks to complete, but Vicki had arranged for a cleaner, to do an internal spring clean prior to the season on the 7th April, so I only had 2 weeks in reality but still plenty of time.
And l have to yet pick up the sprayhood from Kernow Covers, which had gone in for repair, in the photo below, her winter sprayhood was still in use.
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