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