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

Monday, 19 August 2013

All fitted now just need testing

Well the new shrouds have been fitted and await testing tomorrow. They look quite traditional and smart. I just hope my splicing, whipping and the hemp rope hold up. My original shrouds were dyneema, high strength. The hemp, well I have no idea! It is modern hemp so I am assuming it will be OK.

The tides are approaching springs and high tide will be at 6am, around 5.2m. Winds will be from the SSW and light, around 3 - 8 knots. I may well do some fishing as well, something I rarely do from Arwen. At the moment I'm intending to sail around the sound, outside the breakwater and possibly up the side of penlee point to the draystone buoy area. It would be nice to call in for a coffee at Cawsand and test out the fore and aft anchor pulley system.

Should be a busy day!

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