Pete-the-knife has offered us the use of his smacks boat Papa Stour for the Stour Sailing Club regatta this weekend.
She's on a half tide mooring at Wrabness so we motored over at high water and Alison hopped aboard with some rowlocks and untied her and rowed her out to deeper water while I picked up a buoy. It isn't something I've done often single-handed but I tied a line on at the bow and brought it back to the cockpit and motored up to the buoy and it all worked nicely.
It had been a dull and wet morning but it cheered up. The ebb was running hard but once it slackened we took Papa Stour out for a sail to get used to her and make sure we knew how to rig her.
Later Melvyn turned up in Hester and we had a nice evening in our cockpit catching up.
Robinetta is a "Tabloid Cruiser" gaff cutter designed by Denys Rayner and launched in 1937. This log documents her history from 2007 when we bought her. Her prior history is documented here.
Robinetta
photograph by Campbell Fox
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1 comment:
That’s exactly how I pick up a buoy; the only way to do it single handed. With little freeboard, it’s usually easy to reach the ring on the buoy and generally a much easier process than I see on bigger boats when there are two (or more) people and one is lying on the bow, swiping at the buoy with a boathook and shouting at the helm who can’t see the buoy.
The only issue is with strong wind or tide when needing to “walk” the buoy forward. That happened in Alderney last week. It was all I could do to hang onto the line while the boat settled. Guess I could have taken more notice of the wind direction. (Tide was slack.)
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