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Snow… but not here
Warning: here comes a thoroughly British rant about the weather… The UK’s taken a bit of a battering by the cold arctic northeasterlies lately. Lots of snow everywhere, except here in Hertfordshire...
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Snow (part two)
Oh, and so until I can go sailing tomorrow I’m entertaining myself doing some work on Keep Turning Left and watching a healthy chunk of Dylan’s videos while I’m at it. Next best thing to sailing. No...
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Last race of the Hamble winter series
Went pretty well to be honest. I was doing pit on J/109 “Me Julie” again in light airs and patchy fog. Delayed getting to the start as we had to scrub the ice off the decks before it was possible to...
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A bit of retrospective
I was looking back through some old posts and came across this one from earlier in the year. So I guess now it’s time to see what’s left and reassure myself that actually more or less everything now is...
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Ah, the angle grinder
That most favoured tool of the DIY boat builder. I took mine to the front of my boat this weekend. Time was short so I figured a rough and ready job is better than no job at all. Ground the repairs...
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Back on it
Sunday I’d hoped to go for a bit of a sail, but it was fairly breezy and on rehanging the rudder I noticed a huge great crack where an old repair had gone bad. Probably best not to sail when the rudder...
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Moderate wind and sun
The weather man can officially go to hell. A perfect forecast of a force three and sunshine for moving Nervous Tension from Langstone Harbour up to the River Itchen last weekend… Well, it was when we...
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What a mess…
The weather’s been fantastic lately, so I’ve been attacking the Land Rover with a tin of red gloss. It’s pretty bright now, but a couple more coats and it’ll be looking great. Nervous Tension’s still...
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Scrub, scrape, paint
Spent a day working my backside off on Nervous Tension yesterday. The plan had been to spend the weekend down there, but my feeble office-job arms can’t take the pressure and I made more progress than...
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That’s all folks…
…for now, anyway. It’s been months since I’ve posted anything here, largely because there hasn’t been anything to tell. I came to the realisation that my life’s just too full of other stuff to devote...
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