It's that time of year. The spiders move in, and the little furry friends: field mice from the field looking for warmth, and Jamie ... must just like the garage.
I thought that EJ was pretty well sorted by now, but then I started a list....!
Routine nicks and chips on the bow and chines. Plus a couple of inexperienced crew hook gouges.
Also the bottom edge of the transom - a couple of groundings and a t-foil attack. May try a shorter rudder pin and a couple of little rubber pads. Also clean up the strut pole where the outhaul cleat on the boom was too far forward.
A proper job on the gantry bolts: on the list from last year but I promised Mr. Croote that I would only rely on the fix from the nationals for the rest of this season.
Kite poles: finish off the current one; make a new one; repair the old one as a spare.
Tiller repair: broke it last weekend; repaired it with Jamie this weekend. But both of us were being cautious: I didn't wax too far up the plastic water pipe we used as a former (so that we could grip it for removal) and Jamie laid up the weave on the generous side (on the basis that we could always cut more off). Result was that the plastic pipe is now very well stuck inside the tiller!
Further refinement of control line take-ups, or more likely start again from scratch.
Also take-ups for the new longer kite halliard and the main/jib sheet.
New kite sock - the side seam has gone and the Lennon kite is too snug a fit.
Adjustable cap shrouds? Better shroud pins (to halve our rigging/de-rigging time!).
Finally (?) modify the launching trolley to ease rolling the boat over - probably based on Phil K's design for E-numbers.
