Post by JohnV on Apr 24, 2017 7:05:13 GMT
Well it's this week that I am hoping to get out of my berth with Sabina.
One of the boats in my way is meant to leave on Thursday for Brandy Hole and the other is being towed to a buoy.
I will use my anchor winch and a gin wheel to run a line to the excavator, which we will park on the grass at a suitable angle. This should turn her until her stern is lined up with the exit.
Hopefully then on the following tide I will be able to back out of the gap (there is a tug/workboat to help pull as well)
That is all worked out and providing the tides make I should be ok ........... It's all the rest that's giving me nightmares !!!
I have been through my "to do" list and ticked virtually all of it off ....... Radar sorted, nav lights checked, GPS working, steering overhauled, engine and generator serviced, new mooring ropes spliced and ready, heaving lines made up, charts for GPS updated. new paper charts for the East coast bought and on board.
Tomorrow I go and pick up the hire 4 man clamshell liferaft and will bolt the cradle onto the deck. .............
The problem is, I keep thinking of things that need to be added to the list. I realised this morning that I don't have an inshore flare pack and while I have been writing this, I have realised I don't have any signal shapes either (Black ball etc for anchor during day) ok so the last is not vital equipment but it is an MCA requirement for a boat the size of Sabina.
(Like the liferaft having to be SOLAS compliant, there are some things you now have to comply with that didn't exist a few years ago)
I am now having crew problems (It's a 36 hour run to the Humber and it's too long for single handing, as well as being single handed at night which is against the insurance)
One chap who was going to come, is away for the weekend with his wife. My mate the tug skipper who wants to come with me has a tow to do from monday for the following week.
etc. etc. ........ So my options are to wait until they (or some of them) are free or find other help (don't want to do that as I know all these guys and have sailed with them)
There are a couple of wharfs that are controlled by the council, where I might be able to lay for a few days. The first 24 hours is free but I don't know what they charge now for additional days ...... 7 years ago it was a fiver a day. I need to take a trot down there today to check it out.
Having to wait for a couple of days will allow me to do a little shakedown trip in the estuary and get everything settled down (I can do those single handing ok) so maybe it's not a bad thing.
Bloody hell my brain is spinning !!!
edit to add ..... just realised the two (new) spare self inflating lifejackets don't have crutch straps with them !!!
One of the boats in my way is meant to leave on Thursday for Brandy Hole and the other is being towed to a buoy.
I will use my anchor winch and a gin wheel to run a line to the excavator, which we will park on the grass at a suitable angle. This should turn her until her stern is lined up with the exit.
Hopefully then on the following tide I will be able to back out of the gap (there is a tug/workboat to help pull as well)
That is all worked out and providing the tides make I should be ok ........... It's all the rest that's giving me nightmares !!!
I have been through my "to do" list and ticked virtually all of it off ....... Radar sorted, nav lights checked, GPS working, steering overhauled, engine and generator serviced, new mooring ropes spliced and ready, heaving lines made up, charts for GPS updated. new paper charts for the East coast bought and on board.
Tomorrow I go and pick up the hire 4 man clamshell liferaft and will bolt the cradle onto the deck. .............
The problem is, I keep thinking of things that need to be added to the list. I realised this morning that I don't have an inshore flare pack and while I have been writing this, I have realised I don't have any signal shapes either (Black ball etc for anchor during day) ok so the last is not vital equipment but it is an MCA requirement for a boat the size of Sabina.
(Like the liferaft having to be SOLAS compliant, there are some things you now have to comply with that didn't exist a few years ago)
I am now having crew problems (It's a 36 hour run to the Humber and it's too long for single handing, as well as being single handed at night which is against the insurance)
One chap who was going to come, is away for the weekend with his wife. My mate the tug skipper who wants to come with me has a tow to do from monday for the following week.
etc. etc. ........ So my options are to wait until they (or some of them) are free or find other help (don't want to do that as I know all these guys and have sailed with them)
There are a couple of wharfs that are controlled by the council, where I might be able to lay for a few days. The first 24 hours is free but I don't know what they charge now for additional days ...... 7 years ago it was a fiver a day. I need to take a trot down there today to check it out.
Having to wait for a couple of days will allow me to do a little shakedown trip in the estuary and get everything settled down (I can do those single handing ok) so maybe it's not a bad thing.
Bloody hell my brain is spinning !!!
edit to add ..... just realised the two (new) spare self inflating lifejackets don't have crutch straps with them !!!