Stormy weather. House keeping procedures.

It rained cats & dogs, with stormy gusts.
I went after work to the boat, to add a few springs so she stays safe.

These contemporary berths are made for much bigger boats than my Laurinkoster: I need to run very long springs to reach boom ends. Neighbor boats, much bigger, have these points just around their cleats.

The wind blows heavily. Sitting behind the sprayhood gives some protection so I could lash to stanchion a new Tufnol cleat. It will be used for roll-genua halyard. Quick release cleat so that I don’t need to spend too much time cleating the sail during tight maneuvers - it will hold it in position until I cleat it permanently on the normal cleat.

Down in the cabin, shielded from weather and in silence I routed VHF cable from the mast up to the pilot berth.
I thanked again Shinya who mounted slim contacts on this coax cable, back then when we worked at Ericsson. I could route the cable via small holes and screw the radio connector when in final position.

It turned out that the cable has enough length to reach pilot berth and still has 80 cm length margin. That’s perfect position to mount the radio - close to the cockpit and above the navigation table which I plan to build here. I can see that there was such a table before in this place but somehow someone has removed it and used pilot berth for storage.

Making a proper navigation table is something for the next winter. I’ll also rebuild the electrical system - to substitute this too modern-looking front panel with one of more matching look.

The wind was howling outside but inside the cozy cabin, behind thick wood, it was calm and homey.
It was getting late so I forced myself out and drove home.