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

Saturday 19 March 2016

A bit more house keeping.......

the front hatch is now operational as is the under deck storage. This now contains stove, cooking gear, food box, spare cushions, sleeping roll, collapsible bucket, a spare clothes bag, a beach foldaway chair and wellies.  Far less clutter about but I still have both anchors stored in trays on the floor either side of forward centreboard area.

Everything else is in drybags in various hatches. If you ignore all the dents and dings, Arwen looks far more ship shape than in the past. I also managed to attach four large stainless steel eyes, two on each coaming, just forward of the rowlock blocks. Why? Well they hold a 3m 15mm diameter stiff but flexible gas pipe which forms a nice hoop over the cockpit. This, I hope, will help spread out the tarpaulin tent when I recut it in the next few weeks.

Every little bit, it all helps. Now all we need is some sun so I can sand down and paint the cockpit dents and dings and some coats of varnish on the mast. 

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