 So After a year I'm sitting in the Sun What does she look like? She looks like she's been sitting in the Sun for a year Blimey We will be doing some more varnishing great Oh, really We'll definitely be having to do some more varnishing I'm afraid Did not stand up so well, but I didn't really get enough coats on Deck rushes rusted right through quality Yeah, oh boy work to do Sailing season so after a week be too much wind noise We're off only a short trip Up the coast of Mariana Nova for a haul out because Hole needs a new antifalve. It probably knew it last year, but It sat for a year and a great barrier reef Falling over a great barrier reef Grew on the bottom of my boat But We're in ten knots of wind with full main and The momentum I tell you that's perfectly named Asymmetric spinnaker I'm making five knots on a beam this reach so I'm very happy with that Because the engine think I need to change the impeller The the water alarm or the alarm rather doesn't go off, but it starts to squeak you guys And it's kind of like I want to tell you something So it's There's plenty of water coming out in the exhaust which is What's making me wonder about it I could probably Pull that main in a little bit. I don't know. No, I will leave it. Look at it aerodynamic profile broken up by all the line slashed to it Still doesn't matter. It's this one that's making all the power And we're bobbing along I'm I'm very much out of practice. So I'm glad I'm just doing a short sail today my short sail for me is about six hours Just under 30 miles up the coast To get my hand in again Yeah, it's all a little bit Unfamiliar There's one of two things that I've noticed that Probably needed dressing as well But we'll come to that. Oh look, I've fitted Clutches, one on that side one on that side so that the main halyard and Genoa halyard Don't have to sit on the winch all the time. So I've got the winches freed up now for other things So that was nice. I use rib nuts There didn't seem to be enough depth of material just to tap into the mast. So I use rib nuts in there I've done some electrical work downstairs put the USB charges The boat really suffered, but I've managed to get a couple of coats of varnish on the tow rail anyway He's still got the masking tape on. Yay But she's gonna be hauled out tomorrow three days on the hard For them to do the anti-fowling At a ridiculous price, but it's the only thing I could book Nothing else available And I'm gonna stay in a hotel for three nights. Bloody luxury after a week already on the boat It's nice out here Temperatures, I guess about 26 28 of course you're in direct sunlight, which is not much fun And the Sun is very strong even my now faded solar panels are Even though they're filthy and Connections are corroded. I've got a new one. It's hiding underneath. I'm not using it yet What am I saying? Oh, yeah, it's so fucking hot swearing Be monetized back not that any of my videos are monetized anyway, I'll put some nice music in now Yeah, it's bloody hot in the marina So it'll be nice to be in a hotel for a couple of days even with all the COVID And I will insert some video of Just how bad the hull was And me scraping it but in the process of scraping it. I think I caught fish flu Because I've been sick as a dog for four days Which is not made working and moving around and Everything much fun, but you know, I think I'm getting over it a bit now I'm still a bit nasal. I'm always a bit nasal Yeah Lots of other things to say but not today We're going up there Anchor there's a big port you can't see it because of the sail Maybe Actually, then hang a left to go into No see life You boats around I Think keep a very good look out on the way out of pissing around with lots of It'll get better nice to be sailing again Look so true wind speed 11 knots now. It's up a little bit True wind angle is here apparently and angle is here Just forward of the beam boat speed 5.3 knots. You see how nice is that? lovely So this marker is the Northwestern end of a massive fish bar Bang in my way and so I've been going a bit deep But now We're going to come up a little bit and I think we're probably going to Overcambus because the winds up to about 13 knots now. We'll see we might have to drop the momentum It's getting quite heavy I have to drop the momentum and put the genoa back We're still sailing day one to Burrianova, which is a one hour away about four and a half I was ahead of me the winds drop now to Spanish coast is still over there our way back there to It's a nice looking old Not that old It's double-ender our Dodger stroke pilot house Obviously made cruising not made for speed though because I've been catching a well for all day Not that it's a race except that whenever there are two yachts Invisual sight of each other. It's always a race, but yeah, she's uh, it must be at least 35 foot I would say She's bigger than me But not quite the same racing heritage, I guess 1960s racing heritage I've Today's been a learning experience I Get things working and forgotten a good way to get the Asymmetric spinnaker down when it blows up so The annoying thing is the wind got up a little bit to about 14 to 15 knots and It backed So I was I was in I don't know 70 degrees apparent 70 to 80 degrees apparent and it doesn't well it flies all right But I didn't have it rigged properly for going up when you need to have the leech a lot tighter than I had it And that's almost impossible to adjust when there's pressure in it And and and it makes the boat a bit Where the hell me when it gets to those winds and those speeds and angles so I brought it down and of course as soon as I brought the sail down the wind drop Brought it down in a not very elegant fashion I have to practice that a few more times. No one got hurt though. So nothing went over the side. Well, there we go