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New 65w solar panel, solar control and remote meter by Morningstar Corporation. Elektra came with shore power, which is great if you can connect to it but being on a swing mooring we don’t have it, last season we found the lack of power a real problem and knew we needed to do something aboutContinue reading “New solar power”

The forecast today was variable 1-2 increasing SSE4 and S6-7 later. The plan was to leave about 1330hrs to sail back to Gillan, we needed to get Elektra back up in Carne Creek next week because of possible east wind on Wednesday, high water wasn’t until 1730hrs and we didn’t want to be to earlyContinue reading “Saturday 14th April”

The forecast was good for the early weekend but Sunday was wind and rain. we decided to get away as early as possible on Friday which wasn’t until 1700hrs once the tide had come in high enough for Elektra to get out of Carne Creek. It was almost a down wind sail across Falmouth Bay toContinue reading “Friday April 13th”

On Saturday the 7th of April we got “Elektra” ready to go sailing, it had been a while and I had forgotten which things needed doing and in which order! The forecasters were giving variable 2-3, we thought ideal for our first sail, Vicki took us out though the mooring on the engine while IContinue reading “1st sail of the season”

On Saturday we got “Elektra” ready to move from her winter mooring down the river to the sea on the evening high tide, removing the bow lines and setting up a slip on the bow. I had to rerun one of the aft lines so it went over the lines of the yacht next toContinue reading “Two days to cover 1nm!”

We are getting “Elektra” ready for the season and hope to move her from the winter mooring to her summer mooring over the Easter weekend. I put her sails went back on yesterday and I painted her boot top line, I also cleaned out the anchor locker which was not draining due to mud in the bottom. VickiContinue reading “Getting ready for the 2018 season”

I had a few jobs which needed doing up the mast. I am not scared of being up high so was willing to do myself but my wife would never have been able to winch me up there so I bought a Deffee Mast Ladder. So today was the first time I used the ladder,Continue reading “Mast work”

After a winter up a muddy creek “Elektra” was coated with a layer of mud below the water line, I had worked out a way of using my pressure washer with a header tank filled from the stream but found out my petrol gen would not run the p-washer so had to revert to scrubbing. I had madeContinue reading “Anti-fouling!”

I made a new battery box for the new 2x110ah battery bank and I am adding the old engine battery 70ha to the old bank making that bank now 210ah. Those of you sitting in marinas connected to shore power maybe wondering why. Last season we had a lot of problems with battery drain due to neverContinue reading “New battery box and bigger battery bank”

The cutlery had been a problem last season with no real safe place to keep it, so I fitted a new draw and cupboard, losing a bunk but as we are only two we found it was a better use of space