Bit of work done this weekend on Elise

On Saturday, I ended up with a massive headache and 13 hours of sleep. Heather thinks that it could be because we were working next to this huge powerboat that was spitting out water and (I didn't realize at the time) fumes.

Anyway, I was pretty useless but I did hook up the solar panel on that day. Between our work over the weekend and Kit's work over the week, let's see what's new...

• speakers hooked up for long distance/cruising mode (we don't have an audio source yet but they look cool for sure)
• electrical tidied up all over the place
• big anchor secured
• pig stick for C-strobe secured
• better install of the radar reflector (nice work Heather) after our practice sail shook it up a bit. the practice sail did fulfill its purpose of spotting things we would want to change. Always easier to do this at the dock
• hooked up solar panel and checked that everything worked (we also managed to charge up both batteries as we sailed mostly where it was sunny on Sunday, avoiding the north-west side of the Bay as much as possible)
• added a small cleat for the line that secures the companionway sliding hatch closed
• installed the dodger
• swapped the lifelines (and realize that Elise needs new Bay stanchions...the outhaul issue during Coastal Cup seriously bent a couple of them! and for some reason, something else must have bent another one on the starboard side)
• re-seal the side of the toerail (seemed to be dripping water in some places)
• put proper cotter pins where there were some other fasteners for the rig
• bent a spreader (which means that we are not rushing to get this fixed before the start)
• ordered chart (one we had was dated 2001 and we were asked to upgrade to a later version)
• received satellite phone
• stowed most everything away and remove what didn't need to be on the boat
• got a new squeashy water container (which turned out to be leaking into the bilge so we also need to work on that one. Heather has one otherwise, but this new one is blue. Well worth the buy!)
• did our deviation card for the set of magnetic compasses
• sorted parts to take only what we needed with us, buy a couple of stuff we had run out of (including epoxy set) and might need
• tried out the new waterproof bag that will contain the flares (it works just fine as we stowed it on deck where the liferaft will be)
• picked up the liferaft
• couldn't easily find the right part to replace the clip for the tiller extension. Installed a burgee solution instead
• saved part of the nav table that was starting to rot (a hole we had drilled as a water drain before the shroud bases got re-bedded and that had been constantly wet so unable to apply resin or at least glue to make it waterproof yet. This weekend was a perfect opportunity for us to do that
• took the boat out of the water and did some serious bottom brushing

Practice set up, jibes, take downs and driving upwind/downwind and tacking double-handed (with passengers to make things more interesting)

I may be forgetting a bunch of things - and none of these things take very long.

Tasted cookies, they taste fine.