This year’s refit was supposedly a smaller and easier refit than last year’s. That was the plan at least… got to love a plan! The good Foot pump serving For most of the time we’ve had WeatherWitch, the foot pump for the salt water has been ineffective at best. We finally found the time to …
As the main sailing season slows down, our thoughts turn towards some of those annual maintenance jobs that we just haven’t quite got around to yet, with servicing the engine being the top of our list. It all started well, with the impellor coming out in (mostly) one piece pretty easily and the new one …
WeatherWitch has been in the water for 18 months as we’ve wanted to be able to take advantage of a great sailing day whenever in the year. This has resulted in many great days out on the water, but also has given the Hamble algae, shellfish and seaweed plenty of opportunity to give our copper …
Previously we chatted about removing our 2 big, rather crazed, Goiot hatches to get them refurbished after the success with our little hatches in the winter. The turn around times for getting the refurb done were much quicker in the summer (hence doing it now) so now we have the excitement of refitting our lovely, …
When we got WeatherWitch, all of her hatches were watertight but heavily crazed, which reduces the strength of the acrylic. As such, we’d been making an effort not to walk, let alone jump, on the the hatches in a successful bit to keep them watertight and not getting any worse. We then found a great …
We’ve been not the most regular users of the radar for the past year in part because we’ve (thankfully!) not been caught out in any fog. In the small amount of playing we’ve done over the past year with our radar we identified a few quirks…firstly that it didn’t have a heading sensor plugged in …
Frosty fingers and stunning sunsets! We really lucked out with the weather for our refit – 5 weeks in the marina and it didn’t rain on us while we were working! The clear skies also benefited us with a succession of amazing sunsets, as well as beautiful glittering frosts. While we enjoyed the frosts to …
This winter we’re tackling the, rather extensive, list of jobs and upgrades that we’ve been collecting throughout the first season of getting to know WeatherWitch. When we were initially planning this refit period we were wonderfully (over)enthusiastic about what we could achieve during a month’s refit around full time day jobs…being able to revise the …
