Messing around with boat

Unfortunately, the way I work makes it hard to sail during week days - I arrive at my boat too late in the evening to have enough wind and time for any meaningful sailing. This however is a perfect time to mess with the boat - fix some small jobs and simply be on the boat, enjoying “bryggsegling”.

Tonight I’ve installed steel mesh in most vents. Wasp queens have woken up from winter sleep and look for a place to build nests. I don’t want to experience having wasps in my boat, like last year, so meshing vents is necessary.

Last week was hot and sunny but weather forecast shows heavy showers coming. High time to properly install mast collar. It’s a home-made collar, will suffice for this season but I need too buy a proper, rubber collar before next summer.

I’ve removed sea-water pump from the engine - to repair it at home. All parts are delivered so it is time to get into this job now.

The last thing I wanted to do was to change cleats for genua sheets: current jam cleats are too small for sheets which annoys me since last summer. I want to change them to alladin-lamp type of cleats - made from Tufnol. Unfortunately, port side foundation has developed a split and upon drilling it totally broke apart.

So it will be epoxy work first - to bring it back into one piece and to close all old holes. Better now than during sailing, I suppose.

There is a big event in Stockholm this weekend: Skärgårdsmässan and Veteranbåtsfestivalen.