some video clips.......

I found another video clip of Jaunty, Dave P's old navigator. You can view it here

The first of my 'Arwen up the Tamar' videos can be viewed here

Part 1 from Barn Pool to Mashford's boatyard

...or if the captions are too small on the clip above, you can access it on Youtube - search for 'Part 1 Barns Pool to Mashford's. Sorry about the poor quality in places but my beloved Sanyo Xacti CA-9 waterproof camera has died and I'm doing these videos on a small samsung digital camera instead.

Below are the tracks of my outward and return legs up to Jupiter Point yesterday.

Outward leg up the Tamar: the wind was blowing anywhere from NW to NE and so made for some interesting sailing!

by the time I came to do the return leg, the wind had shifted around to east or south east.....so I was tacking back as well!!

reflections.........

All totalled up - the GPS says I covered 19nm.......the actual straight distance is around 9nm.......so double the distance because of the wind shifts, constant tacking and probably some poor lines of sail by me!  Still enjoyed it though. More videos to follow tomorrow............

and a quick shot of the new lazy jacks before the sail is hauled up and trimmed

It is a single piece of rope that starts tied off on the boom, runs up the port side of the sail, through the mast band loop and then back down the starboard side of the sail to a tiny pulley block on the sprit boom. Then it runs back up and through another pulley block which had been tied into the lazy jack, before descending back to the sprit boom. A new tube cleat has to be added on the boom for the rope end to go through. I haven't trimmed the rope to length yet either.  By pulling on the rope end, the sprit boom lifts until it is about 4' 6" above  the thwart/centrecase.

Steve