First task this morning is to get the headsail down and in it's bag to take it across to the sailmaker for repair. Carole and I managed to get it down and loosely in the bag. Then we settled in to bacon and eggs for breakfast.
Rod came around at 9.30 to give me a hand to lug the sail across the road to the sailmaker. He gave it good going over and commented that it was a very well made sail, but they appear to have not used a good quality fabric. I will take this up with North Sails when I return to Sydney. It looks like the sail was made in Turkey from the markings in the sail bag. To repair the tear in the leech he recommends running a 75mm reinforcing take pretty much the length of the sail where to double thickness of the UV protection strip meets the single thickness of the sail. He will also permanently patch the area I repaired with tape.
Sailmaker inspecting the tear in the headsail
Next job is to remove Rod's hot water heater and get it across to the stainless steel fabricator across the road so he can fix the leaking weld. This was fiddly and time consuming, but the heater is now sitting in the workshop awaiting repair.
The weather has been a bit overcast but the strong southerly change is yet to arrive and it is raining on and off. A few more yachts arrive at the marina, one we have seen on and off since Port Clinton, and a 54 ft Hanse “Moksha” from Pittwater also arrived late in the day.
As the weather is miserable we end up watching a DVD in the afternoon, before calling the courtesy bus to take us to the Lighthouse Hotel in Burnett Heads for dinner. We also caught the courtesy bus home with another patron. The bus was driven by a kid who had never driven anything like it before, and after a colourful trip home, we left him and the other patron in the marina car park, trying to work out how to get the bus to co-operate so they could complete their journey.
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