Launch & Boards Autumn 2009

A few more photos of the boards, keel, rudder etc before launch in October 2009. No sailing so far this year sadly! Sanded and repainted the boot topping in a hard antifouling paint. Will see if it stays in better nick this year! Photos include shots of the boards fully extended for maintenance and in the approximate maximum operational position.

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Summer 2008

We've been a bit quiet on this site this year, but just to prove that Elsa is still out there and we do occasionally get away from our desks to visit her, here are some pictures from our main summer holiday in 2008. Twas the Clyde and inner hebrides again and this time in the company of our friends Danielá & Jiří from the Czech Republic.

The weather was pretty grim for most of the two weeks, so it perhaps wasn't the best introduction to sailing for our friends, but hopefully they havent been too put off

Because we weren't sailing with another boat this time, there are unfortunately very few photos of Elsa herself, which is a great pity, but here's what we have.

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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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