So at great expense we have brought a new mainsail. The old one was 20 years old and the new one has 3/4 length battens - so we will see if we acutally get any performance difference. At least it will look smart ! The fitting went fairly smoothly until we found one of the slides was the wrong size and had to file it down. The new sail also exposed how bad the sail cover is. I will put new one of those on the long list of things to do/but/get mended !
Mark is working up towards giving up work and sailing away.
Am I running away ? Too right I am ! From traffic jams on the M4, the Inland Revenue, Health and Safety legislation, Big Brother series 27/28/29..., all politicians and constant marketing trying to make you buy "stuff" you don't want, don't need and won't use and meaningless jobs you do for large corporations who make "stuff" to earn money to pay for "stuff" you don't need, don't want and won't use...
You get the idea.
I have only got to Ireland, France and the Channel Islands so far in my Prout 33 Catamaran I purchased at the end of 2007. But the seeds of change have been sown and this is the story so far...
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