Tag: Blue Opal
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First sail of 2019
After the wind, wet, and cold of the last few weeks, yesterday was pleasantly warm and somewhat sunny. The wind came up around noon, and there was but one thing to do – take Blue Opal out on a shake-down sail. Earlier in the week I’d fixed the yankee sheet (the wrong one had been…
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Good night
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T’was a misty morning
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Repair work on Blue Opal
I needed to check all the sails on Blue Opal this evening, just to be happy that everything was rigged correctly. The wrong sheet was on the genoa, so that had to be dropped and fixed, and then my attention turned to the main. It was a bit of a surprise when the zip handle…
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Blue Opal is coming back to me
With my passport not in my possession, getting Blue Opal back to Ireland is going to be difficult. A bit of searching online, and some quotes, and I’ve ended up contracting Halcyon to move her from Pwllheli to Dun Laoghaire for me. It’ll be nice to have my boat back; she should be here on…
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Cutless bearing – all closed up
Work was completed late last year, and Blue Opal has been sitting in Pwllheli on the hard waiting for the sailing season. With the chaos of Brexit and a citizenship application, I’m having to look into delivery skippers/crews to get her back to Dun Laoghaire. She’ll have a fresh coat of anti-foul on, and should…