Arwen's meanderings

Hi everyone and welcome to my dinghy cruising blog about my John Welsford designed 'navigator' named Arwen. Built over three years, Arwen was launched in August 2007. She is a standing lug yawl 14' 6" in length. This blog records our dinghy cruising voyages together around the coastal waters of SW England.
Arwen has an associated YouTube channel so visit www.YouTube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy to find our most recent cruises and click subscribe.
On this blog you will find posts about dinghy cruising locations, accounts of our voyages, maintenance tips and 'How to's' ranging from rigging standing lug sails and building galley boxes to using 'anchor buddies' and creating 'pilotage notes'. I hope you find something that inspires you to get out on the water in your boat. Drop us a comment and happy sailing.
Steve and Arwen

Sunday 1 April 2012

a few more photographs for Lars

I promised Lars a few more photos of Arwen and here they are. I will post more later this week when I run her off the drive for some maintenance work.

Heading back towards the Cattedown across the front of Plymouth Hoe


The snotter lower end arrangement. Note to self - must sort out the frayed edges


an overview of on board chaos


top end of snotter; and the rope that lashes top yard to mast


bottom tack arrangement
from left to right: bungie cord and clip to forward end of the sprit boom
Main halyard through deck to haul up the top boom
halyard closest to us: sheet for jib
the four holes in deck were where I originally ran the downhaul but I could never get sufficient tension on it


rear of sprit boom. the block needs replacing; originally I had it as another turn of rope running through the bottom sheave but it didn't work well in light winds.


bottom end of the main sheet rearranged so that it is now a simpler purchase
also visible are the tiller uphaul/downhaul and the rear mizzen sprit boom arrangement


the tiller tamer adapted from the dinghy cruising association site


the mizzen sheet
the sisal rope through 'the hole' is temporary; it is the loose end of the lazy jack and I tie it off as above when the sail is dropped and flaked onto the boom


I don't even know where to start on this one


the aft end showing the reefing system on the sprit boom


forward end of the sprit boom showing the reefing ends
also in the picture is the downhaul tackle


interior shot showing centreboard uphaul and downhaul; also the centrecase top board with jib sheet eyes for when I am single handed

Lars, hope this helps but remember i can't say that I have all this right

Steve

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