Classy?

 

Money is a poor indicator of class.

                       Rev. John Oates

                       Wayside Chapel

                       Kings  Cross, Sydney 

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the week ending 10dec23

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I haven't been onboard this week, due solely to the fact that she lays some 300k from where I live.  I do have good news though, and that is that this week I took formal ownership of JS and am about to secure the Clareville Beach mooring. The very same Clareville Beach from where Ann Gash departed and returned from her solo circumnavigation. I have new lateral chainplates to install too, so apart from shipping safety gear (flares, vhf & ?), I just need to overhaul the anchoring gear and  ready for sea. SydHarb is just 16nm, head to head, so a solid halfday's sail could see us swanning around under the coathanger. Apart from getting under sail and testing her out, the under the bridge sail is the only immediate goal I have for JS. Taking a dump out the front of government house and Vaucluse mansions are two other perverse pleasures I may take part in, though l will need to mind the Fun Police.              *     * ...
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getting the ship:s papers

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After motoring to the beautiful Clareville Beach, I found the waters calm and silky dark. Slow skidding cumulus that reeked of showers, hung without menace.  The lovely Barry Marshall (previous owner) arrived with a bag of ship's papers which provided a potted history, receipts, manuals and registrations. Generously, he also passed on a porta potti, boat hook, auto bilge pump, two headsails and a spinnaker. The headsails felt heavy and crisp, were labelled North Sails and are possibly unused.  I also became the caretaker of the yellow surf ski. I'd seen Barry, who paddled across Bass Strait calmly paddle this as a tender and as he told me the lock code, extolled it's virtues and how easy it was "to stand on to get onboard ". Of course I couldn't wait to try out the new tender in order to check on on Jack Sprat  so off we went with se new chain plate fittings and little else. As we arrived at the gunnel Barry's words came to mind as I shuffled and jerked, g...
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Rudder Work

 Finally back at work.  After bloody weeks and months of rain and wind the chance arrived for some work to get done.  Not having plans to go ofI and feeling the vibe,  I used the original rudder as a drilling template.  After drilling putt to 4-5mm, a larger drill was used either side to clean the scurf on each lashing hole.   Not certain of the process,  I G00gled possible solutions without success.  The options are:- 1. Coat the holes with epoxy.  2. Overdrill, fill with epoxy and redrill. 3. After lashing seal with epoxy.  Thoughts:- 1. Could easily foul the hole and not serial properly anyhow.  2. Lots off work, could weaken site.  3. Easy,  but will it still allow free rider movement? Afterwards, inside of hatches and rollers were painted.  Happy days!
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