So apologies to anyone who checks in on my blog, I have not posted anything in ages and that is slack of me! Well anyhow it seems to be a reoccurring theme here in Lyttelton, the southerly blows through and stuff breaks. After getting sick of being called by the marina manager telling me my lines have broken I decided to go get decent size dock lines as recommended and went for the 24mm lines...to any other marina that is a complete overkill. But as it goes, I have amazingly strong lines now (breaking loads of over 9 ton), but the problem is then it travels to the next weakest thing and that seemed in this instance to be my bow chock (see photo how its bent and ripped one end out the bow). But I guess thats not as bad as the other boat in the photo who broke out of his berth completely and ended up on the middle of the marina. Again Christchurch City Council you are a bunch of half assed twats, sort your crap out and build something decent like every other marina in New Zealand!!!
Enough of a rant on that, the other thing I headed down to try was getting the in-mast furling going properly. Now after spending some time on Google I managed to find a post where someone else was having real trouble getting the main to unfurl well (they too were winching it out), but the recommendation was to simply loosen the halyard as it puts too much sideways load on the upper bearings, so I did that and amazing it worked!! it furls in easier and unfurls really well now....I cant believe we struggled with that for months on end and it was as simple as that! Well thank you and good night...until tomorrow.
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