This blog is about my trials and tribulations of owning a 18 foot trailer sailer. Both have been Bradwell 18's that I grew up seeing on the River Trent in Nottingham. I first owned Holly a mk1 that I had lots of fun with and was sad to see her go. After a brief try of a larger Jaguar22 I decided to return to Bradwells and recently bought Y.KNOT a mk2 and have been impressed so far with the improvments over the older mk1 boats. Hope you enjoy reading my exploits as I share them.
Thursday, 30 April 2009
Mast Testing
Been away for a while and not had much to report since the launch. My friend who has been the biggest help has aquired a 17 foot fishing boat in nead of repair so he neaded my trailer. Things to be completed as it stands are
1 Finishing off the mast and boom plus all the running gear.
2 Finishing off the electrics with two batteries required and sorting out the wiring for the depth guage.
3 Finishing off the interior with foam for the cushions and curtains.
4 Anything else that comes to mind when working on the other items.
All in all not much to do compaired to how things were looking 3 months ago.
Went down to Holly to make a start on fitting the mast and after the weekend had made great progress.
Will be completing this over the next few weekends
I can now see Holly looking like a sailboat again.
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