Archive for March 2024
I have not felt like posting these past two months due to a two week break to sail in the ILCA World Masters in Adelaide and being pretty tired after long days working on the hull.
To me it seems like groundhog day with the same tasks ahead every day and possibly not too interesting for the followers.
In other development we have lost our hull cleaning provider who had been doing a fantastic job over the last year keeping the bottom of Passion X race fit. Since then our performance has been hampered by more than usual hull fouling. Despite one hull clean the hull speed under motor is not up to expectations so this is a work in progress.
Parts are trickling in as available and I have added to my stock of deck fittings, engine exhaust parts and electrical elements. The fuel tank has arrived and will be put in its final resting place as soon as a last coat of epoxy is applied. I had been agonising about how to fill a small triangle between a stringer and the fore and aft side of the quarter berth and with the arrival of the fuel tank I settled for a wedge of foam bedded in epoxy bog so that the gap is filled to avoid any water trap.
I am owed a winch but the holes are drilled and we could launch with one winch short but it is amazing how long the lead time is. The fridge parts are also on back order as is the head basin but these are not holding me back.
A selection of photos from the last month
