Julian and I went to Robinetta this weekend with the vague hope that we could get the engine going ourselves. Unfortunately we failed, and the engine would not even turn over on the hand crank. We have come to the conclusion that it would be best to just get a new engine... This has put a damper on our sailing plans for the year as I suspect it will take a while to organise.
The varnish on the mast has also crazed and is peeling in a way that will probably flake off the first time we try to haul up the main sail, so we need it stripped off and redone. All this combined with the fact that we are in the middle of moving house to Scotland, means I am going to be very busy since we hope to sail Robinetta up the East Coast this summer.
The good news is that Julian got a reading from the new depth gauge transducer in the bow that we had fitted last summer, and that the hull has now taken up completely. The weather was also beautiful, and we got to fly our East Coast year flag.
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