Will and the Bass

Will with good training from his Grandfather caught this lovely Bass just as we came into Lyme. Having already caught a Mackerel , we decided that I could not eat so much fish and let it go but unfortunately I think it had been out of the water too long ,after it swam off Will later found it dead on the beach. Moral - only catch what you can eat. Sad affair.

Lyme Regis with Karen and Will

Diva on the visitors pontoon in Lyme Regis. An interesting sail with the wind from the southwest - forecast northwest. Little bit of motoring, until the wind picked up for the last hour.
Trip back was a slog beating against a westerly only freeing up in the afternoon as we approached Exmouth with some fairly strong gusts - 6.3 knots on the wind.

Wasp Trailing Log Spinner

I have always liked the principle of trailed logs - a devise for measuring distance travelled through water. Trailed logs were a fixture on every cruising yacht in earlier days until the advent of electronic navigation instruments. One of the advantages of these "antiquated" instruments is the lack of power requirements - what, no batteries. There is one problem with

trailing logs - apparently they attract sharks, most logs come with a spare spinner but that's only allows two shark attacks. I thought that there might be a need for spare spinners. I have been producing spares for Wasp type logs. Check out ebay .......... I'm looking for a "Walker Log" to replicate. The Wasp blades are cast with copper filled epoxy with a brass and stainless body.

Introduction to Diva

Diva is a 26ft Telstar Mk2 Trimaran built in 1979. Supposedly a four birth cruiser but much more comfortable with two. I was never quite sure about the name but its short and easy to say on the radio and is it bad luck to change the name of a boat.

New Doors for Diva

I have been intending to make some new cabin doors for my trimaran for some time, I found some nice teak which came from Karen's dad. The doors are 18mm plywood with the teak rebated on the edges.