Double handed Race 28 July 2018

With Ian being the one who was keen on getting all the work completed from the winter lay up, the pressure was on. Literally the final items were completed on the morning of the race. The sails being the last item as they were reloaded onto the boat. Winds were light but Yolo got a good start.. The conditions did not suit Yolo. Eventually the expected wind transition moved over the course.. and Yolo took advantage but still unable to make up all the time lost on corrected time. After rounding Landfall and sailing to Woodbridge, there was some boats asking something about a shortened course, but we had heard nothing. Eventually we called up to find out our course had been shortened so we altered course and had to make back ground again to the finish line. In the end, Yolo came 2nd on corrected time, but it is important to note that some boats did not hear the Shortened course. If they did, Yolo would likely have come third.

Boating World

A Compliment where a Compliment is due:

As part of the winter maintenance program, it was decided to remove the saloon table in order to make more space in the interior(and declare for ORC and reweigh etc..)

IN order to do this, we had to remove the mast, which we had work attended to in the process..

Once the mast was out, we had a technical query relating to the mast step.. We referred this query to Boating World the official Jenneau Dealers for South Africa.

They in turn, took it upon themselves to do the work under warranty and managed the whole process.. their chosen contractor was Action Yachting.

So Well done to Boating World and Jenneau… No wonder Jenneau owners are so loyal to the brand.

WINTER LAY UP

YOLO is 6.5 years old and has done some serious mileage including two Atlantic crossings and has some more distance sailing planned on the horizon.

With this in mind it was time to give the boat a once over to bring her back to tip top shape again.

The following has been done:

·         Boat fully emptied

·         Mast service which included new caps, spreader reinforcement, sheaves, new VHF aerial and a separate AIS aerial fitted.

·         Mast step was beefed up with Solid Wood and Epoxies.

·         Replaced Electric bilge pump.

·         Replaced Exterior Bilge Pump.

·         Revarnish interior wood work.

·         Removed interior table.

·         Polish “fall out” off deck.

·         All Gel coat chips repaired

·         Full re-antifoul

·         Replace prop and leg anodes

·         New Lee cloth’s for centre berths

·         A mast wrap made.

·         New padding for the life lines.

·         ORC reweigh.

·         The boat repacked.

·         Plus lots of smaller jobs done in-between.

As we had removed the interior table we had to declare this to ORC.. besides this, the boat had not been weighed for 6.5 years.. over this time various items had been added so an ideal opportunity to update this.

So the winter projects ended up with a lot of work being done on Yolo… freshening her up for the next 6.5 years of sailing.

The contractors used:

·         Associated Rigging

·         Action Yachting

·         Ian and Dale