New Adventures

Well it's not really a travelling adventure but an adventure all the same.  We have for a while been wanting to refurbish out boat.  Our boat is a Cape Dory 30C (C = cutter).  She's a lovely boat and we have had some great adventures on her.  However she's getting a bit rusty in places so we decided it was time to fix her up.
Working in the boatyard is bothersome it's a 30 minute drive and you never have what you need right there so we decided to move her to our house where she fits down the side of the garage just nicely.  Prior to that though we had some preparations to make.




Firstly the rudder had to come off.  The day after returning from the UK we started work.  We uncovered her and then emptied out everything we could.  Then we removed as much of the steering gear as possible and then got the yard to lift her so we could drop the rudder out.  To get the rudder of I had to first grind out the bottom bearing and support and remove that - now we are committed!!!

Sally finds it all very exciting especially having sandwiches in the back of the truck.