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I put the content in the first post. @Samantha Ritchie - if that's not OK just let me know and I'll remove the extra content.1 point
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Excellent, Don!! Great to see you get your boat into the water this year. I know you enjoy the tinkering and building, but I’m hoping that you get all KINDS of sailing time and adventures with Windepenent. I just put Avocet into storage today for the winter.1 point
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Here are lots and lots of photos. I swear I uploaded them in order but the forum software had different ideas. Still, they are approximately correct.
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We've been now under way for three months. As expected, the dinghy has gotten a lot of use especially here in Scotland. We've sailed it to pub several times, and rowed to various shore-based adventures. As we had some guests visiting, we also found out it rows pretty well with three adults on board. So far we've found that the best way to assemble the dinghy is upright with the stern section tied to our inner forestay. This way we've been able to do it in winds over 20kt. Instead of a bridle we also deploy and hoist the dinghy vertically with a halyard tied to the painter. You'll see a lot of the dinghy in action in our June video (Finnish audio but with subtitles): It is soon time for some paint repair, as some of the rocky landings have left scratches in the bottom.
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Samantha, Nice ideas with the extra lines to keep the sails out of the way when they are lowered. I might try out the extra uphaul approach to raise the front of the mainsail to the sprit level… I usually lower the front of the mainsprit to a foot or so above the cabin and raise the clew end as you’ve done… potato/potahto. In August, I sailed Avocet in a local lake to test out the boarding ladder I had installed and I played around a bit with a canopy over the companionway and forward cockpit area. I plan to refine this next year by making another canopy with more appropriate materials. (The horizontal support widens the canopy nicely but is too low… I have some ideas.) My wife and I returned Sept 30 from our 40-day 50th Anniversary road trip, doing a circuit from our Wisconsin home to visit places we’ve not been to before, like Voyageur’s NP, Glacier NP, Olympia NP (we spent 4 nights in Lacey), most of US Hwy 101, Palm Springs, Galveston, New Orleans, and up the Mississippi Great River Road, seeing as many parks, monuments and wildlife areas as we could. We did the Olympia to Port Townsend trip like you guys… but in our car… I didn’t bring Avocet. By the way, when looking out at the water in downtown Port Townsend, I saw one sailboat going by… of all the boats it could have been, it was a Core Sound. Our extensive fall trip and our month-long June trip with our two grand-girls (spending two of the weeks in Lake Tahoe) took up a LOT of the sailing season this year. I placed Avocet just this afternoon (after not using it since mid-August) into its winter storage place. So, some of my plans for this year are being placed on a “to-do” list for next year, and I have all winter to plan them.
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