More news for the first day back!
05 November 2009
• Newport, RI
by Mike
Just a quick post to update everyone with the latest news on our repairs.
First, the sails are down and off with a sailmaker. We were quite lucky that we got one that would mot only come down to pick them up but had a slot in his schedule to work on them tomorrow. We may even get them back before the weekend, if not, then at least by Monday. I have figured out what was wrong with the headsail furling - again the fault lay with dumb old me. I had cut the too long wire lead from the head of the sail too short and there was too much jib halyard extending from the masthead block and the halyard would wrap around the headsail foil and jam. A simple fix and one that I can do, plus I am going to replace the wire with Amstel and raise the foot about ten inches. The other bibs and bobs are things that we can do over the next couple of days during the rainstorm that is scheduled to come over tomorrow.
We have spoken to the crew of Screech and they will be waiting the storm out in Portland Maine before continuing on. We are hoping that they'll get here by mid next week. It'll be great to see them again.
The marina has been most accommodating, but we'll probably have to be off the docks by next Wednesday. If so we'll look at the local yacht club to see if they have reciprocal relationship with RNSYS for a place to head on over to so we can wait for them.
More news tomorrow.
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