Tag: dinghy
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Sail Maintenance and so on…
Today the weather was really nice and calm so we profited from that by doing a small repair on the genoa luff. It had a small rip in the usual spot just at the start of the fore-stay groove. Now it has been reinforced by a bit of kevlar so it should be OK. We…
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Chrsitmas Repairs…
Today’s happy repair is the wind indicator that the clumsy skipper (me…) fell and smashed during a reefing manoeuvre in darkness in the crossing from Uruguay. The cover glass was cracked in several places and the salt water that got in to the unit damaged one of the background light LED’s. After deciding that it…
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We like aluminum
My neighbor, a french guy, also has an aluminum boat with an aluminum dinghy. Except he did an Optimist instead of a RIB like I did. Cute!
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A tough man needs a tough son?
Presenting “Son of the Journeyman”: Well… I’m really not sure what to name the dinghy. Anyway, now it’s ready and running very well thanks to it’s rather deep V-shaped aluminum hull. As you can see I reused a little bit of the antislip flooring from the interior for the deck. The hull for the dinghy…