Ow

TAKING a much needed rest day today. I’ve been working long hours at the boatyard, and my body is unaccustomed to so much physical labour. I am sore all over.

I am up to the 9th coat of varnish on the mainmast, and have nearly completed stripping the mizzen. The cabin is starting to look less like a storage unit and more like a living space as I reinstall bits that were removed for transit.

I’ve started to work on the bowsprit in between other jobs: there’s actually quite a few different things to do there. The bobstay fitting has a crack in it; failure of that could easily bring down the whole rig–sails, masts and all. In order to replace it, I have to remove it, which requires unloading all the chain in the chain locker, which I have to do manually since there is no power for the windlass. Next, the sprit itself is out of line; I need to make sure that’s not a problem, and have it pulled and dealt with if it is. Then I need to repair the bowsprit platform brackets and reinstall said platform.

Hardly any work at all, really.