Light at the end of a 5 month tunnel......
Quartermoon
Mike Share & Sammy Byron
Sun 27 Mar 2011 03:47
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Quartermoon is finally looking like a sailboat
again! She definitly put up a good fight as I think she was rather enjoying
being a motor cruiser.
We now have the mast, all the rigging and boom in
place and now we are left with just a few bits and pieces to finish off
(electrics / vang).
We tried to get out for our first sail on
Sunday but QM was having none of it. Unfortunately our headsail
didn't fit the new furler so we had to settle for a nice motor cruise
in the lagoon instead. There always seems to be something....
So yesterday I spent the whole day unpicking the
sail luff and rethreading a new luff thread. Hopefully today we should have a
headsail and maybe George will remember to turn up with his old mainsail.
It was a gorgeous day on the lagoon and makes you
really appreciate this place. We picked up a mooring bouy of a gorgeous little
sandy atoll and had the whole place to ourseleves. JY joined us for the day
along with Vin an Ozzie who is stuck here waiting to deliver a boat to Western
Australia.
   Mike was trying to sort out all our electrics
untill 11pm last night, re-running all the cables and testing all the wires so
hopefully we will be another step closer to leaving.
Well...not much else to report. A few more photos
of the progress....
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