Well no that's me in the middle photo.
Was supposed to be a follow-up photo floating off the cradle but I cocked it up!
Anyway the boat is now in Fanny's Bay..
Great feeling tho on the trip back to Fanny's Bay had a problem with water in the cabin seems to be the shaft seal argh!
Hope to see a lot more of the Donegal coast especially south of Bloody Foreland tho possible trip to the Clyde in early June - Campbeltown, Aran and the Kyles - you about then?
ljs wrote:Great feeling tho on the trip back to Fanny's Bay had a problem with water in the cabin seems to be the shaft seal argh!
Press release by Donegal Yacht Launchers Inc:
"with great prescience the owner of a saddler thinggummy removed the de rigeur dustbin from its usual mast position to bale out the ingress of sea water"
joking apart .. thush sounds serious ... wus it ok efter a wee while or has she sunk?
We once had a bit of a shock when we'd arrived at Castlebay after a bumpy sail from Tobermory - the bilges (one of which passes for our cool store) were full of water. We were worried that there was a leak around the propshaft hull fitting, but it turned out that the (phosphor-bronze?) casing on the propshaft tube, well pitted with corrosion, had started to leak between the hull fitting and the gland.
It was an easy enough repair (buried the tube in epophen resin) but it required a lift out.
Mind you, we sailed for two weeks before the liftout - pumping out every three hours, day and night......
