TripSailor.com® Sailing Blogs

Up in the morning I slip down the ladder for my normal morning exercise, and have a look around the area.

Then back to the boat for a limited breakfast (a good job I brought two cornish pasties with me!)

With the launching booked for 12:00 we spent the morning doing a few maintenance tasks.

Applying a multimeter to the cabin lights show them to have 0.8V when the switch is on, and 0 when it is off. I suspect we have some corrosion on the switch…  Repeated on/off movements clears it and the lights come on. Install a replacement fitting for one of the lights and that one job done.

Time to get the the sails rigged and furled before the launching trailer arrives.

Once the “Fox” was loaded onto the trailer it was a sureal experience to be trundling through the boatyard on the deck of a yacht three metres or more above the ground.

At the dockside “Fox” was transfered to the travel hoist and it was time for her to find the water for the first time since last summer.

Now for the acid test, will the engine start. It does and we are away, with our destination, Preveza Town Quay, in full view only about  a mile away.

Still we take advantage of our afternoon to get the sails up and check that we have them rigged correctly and then take her in side-to on the quay, as there is plenty of room.