Got back into Newry last night after a boozy week at home celebrating my sisters 50th birthday.
After a beer or three with Daithi in the Bridge we enjoyed a quiet night, the canal was absolutely calm, on awakening it continued to be very light winds and warm and sunny. A perfect day for climbing the mast. We decided to reeve the Genoa halliard and the spare which we had removed last year and left thin line ( known as mouse lines ) to pull them through. The Genoa halliard went fine but the spare had jumped off the sheave and jammed so there really was no excuse now!
We climb the mast using our mast ladder which goes up the mast using the mainsail track, of course this means removing the mainsail from the track first. Then I climb while Lynne hauls up a bosuns chair that I can sit in to work. First job was to change the steaming light for an LED one, unfortunately I had bought the wrong bulb, stupidly thinking it would be the same as the stern light as they were exactly the same light. How wrong can you be, stern light dimple ends, steaming light cone ends, bugger!
Still we now have a spare for the stern light so in 50,000 hours or so when it fails I shall feel very smug!
So it was on to the masthead to change the tricolour bulb, this was a bit more successful. As was freeing the spare halliard.
The view was tremendous and we had quite a few ' muggles' watching, this is Lynnes new term for passers by.
Lynnes down there somewhere..........
I'm somewhere up there.
The view from the top towards Soteria.
After this we had sorted the main and bent on the Genoa, Lynne was trying to remember her lazy jacks from her topping lifts and it was hot enough for me to be brave enough to take off my shirt.
Looking forward to getting back to sea on a couple of weeks.
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