I said in a previous post that another ride was not far off, but then a 32 foot yacht sort of fell out the sky. It’s now my place of tranquillity. She’s in fairly good shape but would need re-rigging if the plan is ever to take her blue-water sailing. I’m thinking about a cutter rig which would suit her traditional lines.
Aside from the rig, the only major modification needed is to change the angle of the stern tube so that the propellor shaft aligns with the gearbox of the bigger engine the previous owner installed. The engine is a 4 cylinder Perkins diesel. Not a big deal, I plan to put her up on the hard later this year to clean and anti-foul, and whilst she’s up, break out an Oxy cutter and Mig welder. Yes, I would prefer an electric motor but I remember the night when knocked down in a squall it was the diesel that enabled me to turn the 71 foot ketch I was sailing up the NSW coast back into the wind.
Nothing much to say otherwise, the situation in the world speaks for itself; wars, massacres, and accelerating CO2 emissions. Suffer the little children, we’re near down to praying as the only remaining action we can take, but God would for sure reply, “You can do it yourselves!” So now I go to weekly demos calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, to start with.