#sprit-booms

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Big and red and shiny !

Big and red and shiny !

My new sail that is …..honestly you lot, what are you like ?

Very early on in the Hunter Liberty experience i made 3 notes about the boat in my ‘defects and omissions’page in the logbook as i got to know the boat :  1.not enough sail area ,2. not enough ballast and 3. badly behaved at anchor.   Some of that might have come from the fact that my previous boat had been a bigger, heavier and much…

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Rig works.

WABI”‘ real time blog  : it’s all but the end of August, WABI”’ is still ashore although iv’e broken the back of the nasty work on the underside : today i scraped and sanded the last really difficult sections where the boat’s bilge runners are sitting on the cross rails of the trolley and the stern tunnel.  By the time this blog is scheduled to go public i should have the primer on underneath and…

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What the sprit did next.

What the sprit did next.

The second post in the spring refit series regarding the sprit-boom conversion on WABI”’

In early March i used the last few days of a brief spell of good weather to get out on the water, have a reset myself and do some basic sea trials with the sprit conversion, the anchoring system and so on.

The days were lovely once the early morning chill and valley mist dissipated, not that the cold mattered…

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Sprits and Snotters.

A ‘WABI”’ spring projects post.

In a couple of posts i have been talking about modifying my Hunter Liberty’s rig with a long term plan of making new spars and converting her from cat-ketch to cat-yawl.   One of the driving forces for that is to make the cockpit more ergonomic and principally to get the mizzen boom out of my way.  As it is now the boom is just at shoulder height and always in the…

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