Tag: Aslana
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The sound of water
Lovely sounds as I meandered along yesterday; very tempting to take a good quality mic out with me, and record a few hours of sailing noises.
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Dremel for the win
Aslana came to me with a clutch and a cleat on the starboard coachroof, and a cleat on the port coachroof. Unfortunately, everything is in different positions, so the access hatches are in different places. To top it off, the pads behind the old winch and the old cleat were feeling their age (as evidenced…
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Greystones and back
ย The GPS logger was turned on for the trip to Greystones and back, and after a bit of searching I found http://mygpsfiles.com/app/. It ingests the GPX file from my logger, and can animate the resulting course, complete with the speed in knots.
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Summer sailing
Traversing Killiney Bay, beating up towards Bray Head, with First Mate Gor on the helm.
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Stanchion damage
The damaged stanchion base / toe rail after meeting a RIB on the mooring.
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Slipping out
Slipping the mooring today to go sailing, plus a bit of a view of the harbour that I’m moored in. Note, contains swearing when I realise I forgot to ease the topping life (dolt) and when my ancient winches do what they reliably do – cause riding turns.
