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, 6 February 2011

.....well if it fits...........

.......its been a long week - one of those 65hrs plus work weeks which seem to be getting more frequent .......so I was looking forward to a break! And whilst daydreaming over a set of marking....it does happen occasionally.........I remembered I had a tent downstairs in the basement.  Now I wonder, can I make this fit my requirements with a bit of modifying?

Now if I can put anchoring points along the side decks and clip it down
on hooks attached to the rub rail


..and I'll have to do something either end of the dome as well
They are zipped doors so I could raise them slightly and give myself some ventilation

When half term comes I'll get the boat off the drive slope onto the road and try fitting it properly; I'll also dry fit some plywood offcuts across the front cockpit well to see if I can make a sleeping platform; and I'll finish scraping the starboard gunwale. Then both port and starboard gunwales can have several coats of burgess hydrosol again.

Steve

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