{"id":2972,"date":"2014-04-13T12:51:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T12:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2014-04-13T12:51:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T12:51:16","slug":"cruising-boat-repair-in-exotic-locales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=2972","title":{"rendered":"Cruising: Boat repair in exotic locales."},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Sunday morning and, I can\u2019t believe I am saying this, there\u2019s not enough wind.\u00a0 Go figure.\u00a0 After months of TOO MUCH WIND, and constant fronts coming through the Bahamas, we are (fingers crossed) entering a week of moderate easterly trade winds and calm conditions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am afraid to say it but as the weather router is saying the same thing, perhaps I won\u2019t be jinxing it by wishing for the best.<\/p>\n

Yesterday was unusual with rain and drizzle for much of the day.\u00a0 Along with the rain came very light winds, something that I had been waiting for as I had to pull down my genoa (sail) for a minor repair as there was a small rip on the luff tape (if you know what a luff is that\u2019s good, if not, don\u2019t worry).\u00a0\u00a0 However I didn\u2019t want to deal with 600 square feet of sail on the foredeck unless the wind was light.\u00a0 So, after perhaps 6 weeks of waiting, yesterday was the day.\u00a0 Sail down\u2026\"\"<\/a>As I didn\u2019t bring my heavy duty sewing machine with me on this trip, I had to resort of hand sewing and adhesive sail cloth tape.\u00a0 It was pretty crowded up forward with the sail down.\u00a0 Happily, I was able to do much of the work prior to the light rain starting.\u00a0 As you can imagine, the sail repair tape wouldn\u2019t have stuck well to a wet sail.\u00a0\u00a0 Lots of sail to contend with.<\/span><\/p>\n

I stitched the damaged area as best I could and then applied sail repair tape over the stitching.\u00a0 After that, more stitching.\"\"<\/a>The finished work.\u00a0 Not great to look at but it should hold till I get a proper repair done at a sail loft.\u00a0 I usually take the sails to a loft each winter for washing and repair.\u00a0 As I am no longer putting the boat into storage in the winter, I didn\u2019t do that last fall.\u00a0 My mistake as the problem would have shown up and been repaired correctly.\u00a0\u00a0 Well, good enough for now.\"\"<\/a><\/span>It seems that there are always problems, big and little on a boat and Pandora\u2019s no different.\u00a0 As I had mentioned the other day, I had to sort through an electrical problem a few days ago.\u00a0 I was able to track down the problem but still don\u2019t know how it happened.\u00a0 Here I am working away on a solution.\u00a0 Q: Did anyone notice that I have become a bit grey?\u00a0 Hmm\u2026\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/span>We are still contemplating whether we will leave for Cat Island today or tomorrow. We\u2019ll have to think about it for a few more hours and see how the breezes develop.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It could be a nice easy sail today.\u00a0 That would be great.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our friends Russell and Lynn, aboard Blue Highway, got an early start today and sailed past us as I was sitting in the cockpit having a cup of coffee in my jammies.\u00a0\u00a0 Nice people.\"\"<\/a>Off into the sunset, er, sunrise\u2026\"\"<\/a><\/span>Perhaps we will be out soon.\u00a0 If not today, tomorrow.\u00a0 Happily, no repairs to do today.\u00a0 No, wait, I might jinx it\u2026\u00a0 Never mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Sunday morning and, I can\u2019t believe I am saying this, there\u2019s not enough wind.\u00a0 Go figure.\u00a0 After months of TOO MUCH WIND, and constant fronts coming through the Bahamas, we are (fingers crossed) entering a week of moderate easterly trade winds and calm conditions.\u00a0 I am afraid to say it but as the weather […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2979,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/2979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}