Ramblings

  • Sunday Sailing

    Sunday Sailing

    The forecast for today was sunny, moderately warm (on land at least), and sufficient breeze for sailing. So I did. Getting back on the mooring was a bit interesting, because the pickup was upwind of the main buoy, right in the stern of another boat!

  • Blackberries!

    Blackberries!

    And a freshly painted insect house.

  • Slip maintenance

    Slip maintenance

    I put Blue Opal on the slip this Friday gone, with the intent of cleaning off the worst of the growth on her, replacing the shaft anode, and replacing the main anode. Spares had already been acquired, so it should have been easy. Problem number one – I didn’t slip her quite right. I failed…

  • Greenery

    Greenery

  • Drying a camera

    Drying a camera

    The club has a Hikvision camera mounted up high, looking out over the bay. We call it the Slipcam, because the main view is our slip and pontoon. Last weekend, the image went all foggy – it’s a unit that apparently doesn’t have any kind of fan or vent for condensation – and I picked…

  • Garden things

    Garden things

    The garden is doing well, bar one crop of potatoes that seemed to develop early blight. Those have been harvested, and will be turned into the accompaniment for lunch today. The strawberry plants are doing well, with ripe fruit appearing every few days. I’m not the biggest fan of strawberries (in a take it or…