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Weekend sail to Lådna in Stockholm archipelago
This weekend the weather was kind of promising so we set out sailing towards Lådna in Stockholm archipelago. Petra’s parents and their dog Felix were visiting and they needed to leave early on Sunday so Lådna was perfect since it is pretty close to where we have Anne-Mon right now. We also wanted to find some mushrooms and last year we visited Lådna with our ship and found a lot of chanterelles. It was a pretty calm sail on Saturday morning and we got to try the new mail sheet traveler we added a while back. The behavior of the main sail was much better and it was also easier…
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A little update
This weekend was a break from working on the sailboat. Next weekend we will go sailing in Stockholm archipelago, and the weather looks really promising, sun and a good amount of wind. 🙂 Fingers crossed that it stays that way! Anyway, we have updated some of the Cost & Information pages, there is a new page Other Equipment about all equipment we have bought (and want to have) so far and the costs for them. We have also quite recently updated the Renovation costs. Find the pages by navigating to Cost & Information, or click on the links above. Have a nice week everyone!
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New mainsheet traveler (and some other stuff)
During the weekend we have done some work on the boat, we have attached a new mainsheet traveler, the last solar panels and some other small tasks. The first thing we did was to glue the final solar panels in position, we glued them on using marine sealant. With the 2 final ones we now have 5 solar panels in total. They are specified to 60W each, which gives 300W in total. On a good day they will probably give 200W, because of shadowing etc. Next up was to attach a new mainsheet traveler we have bought second hand. The solution on our sailboat from before was that the mainsheet…
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Our solution to reef the main sail
We have mentioned earlier that we hadn’t a good way to reef the main sail and that was something we wanted to fix. Our boom can be rolled, so it can be used to reef the mainsail using a rolling reefing, it is an old way of reefing and what we have read it doesn’t seem to be very good since it changes the shape of the sails. With a rolling reef system we can’t have a kick for the boom either. We choose to go with a reef line solution, and for that we needed some improvements. For our reefing solution we will have a hook at the gooseneck,…
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Mast track gate improvements
Last weekend we didn’t only work with the fresh water system (see previous post). We also worked a with fixing a mast track gate on the main mast, continued with the electrical system and other small jobs. One thing we wanted to fix was an opening we had in the track on the main mast. The opening used when removing/inserting the slides. We haven’t found a piece on the boat that fits here so we decided to make one our own, by bending a sheet of aluminum. Some of the screws for the windows on the boat have some pretty sharp edges which we wanted fixed. They can easily damage…
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