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kynx.org: Coming by Kemara
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A Hurley 22, a few pubs in England, code, and the shock of ageing badly. Saturday, February 12, 2011. Kemara leaving Brixham, 2007. My love. Difficult as ever. I was aboard her late July, 2009, when she became mine. Seaward of the ferry Kemara. Pitched in her lumpy moorings off the entrance to the ballast pond. A stone pen plunked in the Torpoint mud by a taller sailing age, now one of the Huggins brothers' lairs. Kemara is small, and that evening inconspicuous amongst the big sticks. A couple of years l...
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kynx.org: February 2011
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A Hurley 22, a few pubs in England, code, and the shock of ageing badly. Saturday, February 12, 2011. How to get mellified. As you feel your final days hardening - as I do, every birthday - you must go on a diet. For months you eat nothing but honey. Sooner or later everything you exude - your shit, piss, sweat and spunk, your earwax! Will be entirely composed of honey. And then you will die. Your sweet cadaver will remain undisturbed for one hundred years. For Mellified Man, rubbed on the skin, can eras...
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progress Archives - Little Yacht Duet
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Post Tagged with: "progress". The evolving riddle of Duet’s mast rake – Part 4. July 18, 2014 at 2:10 pm. See Part 3 here. So the rigger arrived and together we took the mast off the tabernacle and moved it forward on the deck so it was resting on the pushput and the pulpit, and lashed it down again safely. He also looked over my rigging for me, and although it had been replaced in 2009 (and 2011 for the back stay) he deemed that it was of poor quality and needed replacing really…. The rigger looked at t...
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Winter Maintenance List 2013/14 - Little Yacht Duet
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Winter Maintenance List 2013/14. Here’s my winter. Refurb list for 2013-14… And it just keeps growing! Sails / Canvas Work. 8211; Launder Sails – with R&J Sails in Clevedon. 8211; Remove and wash sheets / warps. 8211; Launder sail cover. 8211; Make a cockpit storage bag and tiller cover. 8211; New Sacrificial Strip on furling genoa – with R&J Sails in Clevedon. 8211; New dodgers – quoted 60 R&J Sails Clevedon / 108 Moatt Sails Portland. 8211; New sprayhood and frame (she’s never had one! Outside / On deck.
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how to Archives - Little Yacht Duet
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Post Tagged with: "how to". The bottom line: What it cost to epoxy Duet. June 21, 2014 at 3:50 pm. I have just about finished the bottom scraping/filling/sanding/painting now, bar underneath one pad (whoop! As a recap this is what has been completed below the waterline:. 1) Professionally sandblasted to remove all old antifoul. 2) Rub over with Hempel Degreaser. 3) Filled any obvious blemishes with Plastic Padding Marine Epoxy Filler. 4) Sand off filler (fair). 5) 1 coat of Hempel Gelprotect SFE 200.
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Ships Log - Yacht "Sparrow": November 2014
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Ships Log - Yacht "Sparrow". Ships log for the yacht "Sparrow" an Ian Anderson designed 'Hurley 20', sail no. 109, launched 16th November 1967. This is the day to day stuff involved with owning and sailing a small boat, so nothing earth shattering but there'll also hopefully be some adventures along the way. Winter Job List 2016 - 2017. Wednesday, 5 November 2014. Group Captain F.H.L. 'Crab' Searl. Group Captain F.H.L. (Francis Henry Louis) 'Crab' Searl. Was with 211 Group [clicky]. The Pan Book of Saili...
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Ships Log - Yacht "Sparrow": April 2015
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Ships Log - Yacht "Sparrow". Ships log for the yacht "Sparrow" an Ian Anderson designed 'Hurley 20', sail no. 109, launched 16th November 1967. This is the day to day stuff involved with owning and sailing a small boat, so nothing earth shattering but there'll also hopefully be some adventures along the way. Winter Job List 2016 - 2017. Friday, 24 April 2015. Completed job list - winter layover 2014/15. Lastly, and purely for reference. But I completed the following this winter gone:. Tide under me - it ...
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Ships Log - Yacht "Sparrow": September 2014
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Ships Log - Yacht "Sparrow". Ships log for the yacht "Sparrow" an Ian Anderson designed 'Hurley 20', sail no. 109, launched 16th November 1967. This is the day to day stuff involved with owning and sailing a small boat, so nothing earth shattering but there'll also hopefully be some adventures along the way. Winter Job List 2016 - 2017. Monday, 29 September 2014. Last sail of the season time. next weekend the mast comes down, and the weekend after that she comes out on the Sunday. Regatta in Hayling Bay ...
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Ships Log - Yacht "Sparrow": June 2015
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Ships Log - Yacht "Sparrow". Ships log for the yacht "Sparrow" an Ian Anderson designed 'Hurley 20', sail no. 109, launched 16th November 1967. This is the day to day stuff involved with owning and sailing a small boat, so nothing earth shattering but there'll also hopefully be some adventures along the way. Winter Job List 2016 - 2017. Monday, 29 June 2015. And headed down the channel for a few hours mucking about. What a cracking morning. came home a with a smile as wide as a bus. Force 3 gusting low e...
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Ships Log - Yacht "Sparrow": Snowhill slide..
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Ships Log - Yacht "Sparrow". Ships log for the yacht "Sparrow" an Ian Anderson designed 'Hurley 20', sail no. 109, launched 16th November 1967. This is the day to day stuff involved with owning and sailing a small boat, so nothing earth shattering but there'll also hopefully be some adventures along the way. Winter Job List 2016 - 2017. Saturday, 1 August 2015. I must do it more often. Got to the club however, and the wind was coming up with the tide, decision made, left the tools in the car and set sail.
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