Since dinner on our laps was simply not appropriate for our sailing etiquette i built a table for our cockpit – essentially a board.
But just spending $100 and buying a simple board did not seem adequate either. So I had a look in the fire wood shed:
Learning our lessons: this time that Cadboro bay beach in winter is not a save place to leave a little tender.
Luckily it was only the tender (and not Alena!) which could be replaced fairly quickly.
I made one last careful paddle out to pick up Alena,
then we went to the dumpster. 
While summer was full of sunny cruising days we now removed as much as possible from the boat to prevent it from getting moist and mouldy. That means non of the cruising essentials is left: no cushions or blankets, no BBQ, no stereo, we did not even leave the floor.
Now in winter it’s racing time: and that means a lot of lessons to learn! The rules are not easy…
Huge thanks to Andrew Madding for being out there and taking photos! Here, here, and here, …
In October Jo and Anni came visiting: our last cruise of the year. Although it was already quite cold and RAINY, it was nice being with old friends again and we had a beautiful time – and finally some sun!
Thanks to Anni for the great photos!
Finally our boat has a name:
Alena.
I’ve build a new housing for our electronics mess:
spent four days on the water – sailing to Galiano Island to meet my friend Chessi.
It was a long sail but I had great company.
spent all the day yesterday cleaning her. It paid soo off!
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For the easter weekend we got the RVYC crane to lift our little boat out of the water and reserved some foreshore cradle time. This means five days of intense work to brush her up and get her ready to sail. Just the right kind of holiday.
This is what the first day looked like – lot of work still ahead.
getting rolling
more scraping, more grinding, more sanding. And sore muscles…
some rain, the rest the same (scraping, grinding, sanding, sore muscles). But slowly getting there.
nothing new (scraping, grinding, sanding, sore muscles). Kyle, do you have photos?
Sun: so getting this paint done. Aha.
done!
Puh, I’m happy to get back to my desk and just sit there, all i have to move are my fingers.
