More little improvements –
Wednesday, July 03, 2013 – An unexpected day off. So got a badly needed haircut and went to
work on the boat. New main halyard
sheaves. They were pretty beat up and
the edges chipped; looked like the skinny little internal halyard might jump
the sheave and get stuck. Of course the
new ones didn’t quite fit, but with a bit of sanding and filing they fit fine.
Installed
a weather vane. Usually summer evenings
in South Puget Sound come with good breezes, but now and then the wind just whispers across the water so the vane will help.
Made
up a chart for racing. A copy of the
race course marks laminated under heavy plastic and a grease pencil give you a
quick way to write down the course and the passing side of the mark.
Still
need a cheap, waterproof stop watch, but for now we’ll just try to stay a
little behind the 420 guy that seems to be the best dinghy racer out
there.
Our
strategy is to just lay low this year and pay our dues—unless by some fluke we
have a shot at finishing first now and then.
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