Summer 2007

The Clyde and Inner Hebrides - Two weeks of bliss. Here are a few pictures from the holiday. We'll sort them chronologically and include photo's other than of Elsa at some point, but here's a few pix for now.

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Under sail at last - May 2007

After all the problems last year we were starting to feel as though we'd never get Elsa under sail again, but here she is on our first sailing outing round Arran and Bute.
The sails are scheduled for some tlc with Owens sails over the coming months & we'll be posting the 'after' pictures asap.

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Servicing of the liferaft - 12-01-2007

We finally got around to taking Elsa's liferaft to be serviced today. The service record inside the survival rations showed that the raft was commissioned in 1987 and has never been serviced - eek! It's testimony to the quality of Zodiac liferafts that an unserviced 20 year old raft still inflated with relatively minor persuasion required.
We now await the verdict of the service engineers (Ocean Safety, Port Glasgow) about whether it's a viable raft. Fingers crossed!

Apologies for these poor quality pix. We managed to forget the camera despite returning home specifically to get it !?! These were taken on my phone

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Launch Day - 23-05-2006

This was the first opportunity we'd had to get the centerboards down for cleaning, antifouling and general inspection. We were rushing about trying not to hold up the people waiting for the hoist, so didnt get before pictures, or pictures of the boards in their normal operational postion, but these pix of them fully extended give the general idea.

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Mast stepping day - 18-05-2006

The combined forces of Duncan & Simon from Silvers Marine, and Donny @ DRB Marine made short work of this job & the long anticipated re-rig was soon over. Thanks all of you!

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The Journey North (Feb 10/11th 2006)

A few pictures of Elsa's trip from the river Avon in Evesham to DRB Marine, Rosneath, Scotland. Many many thanks to all involved, particularly, Steve Smith and gang @ Evesham Marina, Jim from John Shepherd Boat Transport and Donny & Jean @ DRB Marine for their skill and the great care taken in handling Elsa.

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