Elise at the Boat Yard

Courtesy of Joe!

These pictures were taken before we took her out for the Great Pumpkin (she is now back at the boat yard...) - she looks so lonely and sad...


The pole that you see at the stern is for the auto-pilot wind instruments. The reading at the top of the mast is better but it was kind of a pain to run a super long wire (the controls are at the stern too, below deck) so this is the next best thing. Upwind, there will probably be some distortion due to air flows from the main sheets. Downwind (and most of the time, we will need the auto-helm for that point of sail), it should be fine.

The VHF antenna now sits at the top of the mast :) And the tricolor up there will light up our masthead fly!

And the boat yard people used our jib sheet as docking lines. Elise has docking line, she even has a spring line...


Nice new halyards (main and jib on this side, the spinaker halyard is on the other side). We have since changed the turning block that was bent and re-ran the halyard so they don't take up the small turning block that we use for the downhaul.

The mast plate is now a hard reinforced plate and should last for quite a while...The fiber glass work is nicely done, you can't really see that the deck was about to collapse...The wire that's coming out of the mast is the end of the in-mast conduit: it actually contains both the electric wire to the tricolor and the signal wire from the VHF antenna.