New season starts

It seems very late this year, with people rushing round to get last minute jobs done that the cold and wet weather discouraged them from doing in the early 'spring'. I am no different but did have the luxury of two days on the boat prior to launch to sort a few things out for the season.
This years projects included

•  the fitting of a double battery solar panel management system to replace the single and very successful system I installed two or three years ago.
• fitting an extendable bowsprit using a carbon fibre rod to pole out a cruising shute.
• replacing my Garmin 451 that has become unreliable, with a Raymarine Dragonfly 5m plotter
• polishing the hull
• filling and fairing a few of the knock to the keel that have taken place over the years
• installing some new wooden storage boxes to replace the plastic ones that were just a little too big
• and of course a general tidy up - always overdue.......

I will update the blog with the progress, usefulness etc on each of these.

To help me do it I have acquired a small notebook pc so I will hopefully be able to keep the blog slightly more up to date as I sail, rather than waiting to get home....we'll see.