What with Kerry's eye op, it's small complications and other non - boat demands on my time it's been impossible to get near the sanding and varnishing I so want to do. To top it off the weather has been sunny and dry and just what one requires for varnish work etc.
All has not been lost as I now have all the bits made to modify the pushpit for the sheet blocks. So this weekend coming all the bits plus welder shall meet and I will have my shiny metal main sheet horse.

Jonathan Snodgrass wrote:

Gary Pick wrote:We're planing an overnight trip up the river next and I'm starting to think about our first little cruise up to Moreton Bay.

Wonderful.  Well done.  Congratulations.  Jonathan

Thank you Jonathan, It's a good feeling to have gotten past the armchair sailor stage.

Well did find the odd bit of empty water between the jetskies and we did manage some very nice sailing. The tweaking of the throat hauling parrel has worked and we had all but the last panel up crease free. I couldn't raise the last panel as the sheet span to the boom had caught around the eyebolt on the end of the batten. The run up the river was a mix of broad reaching, beam wind and running. The trip back down the river saw a good bit of tacking and she handled that quite well though I did end up in irons a few times through not being fast enough. I'm going to do away with the eyebolts and adopt something like Arne uses.
Now that I know the rig works the way it should I'm going to concentrate on tidying up the rig and catching up on maintenance jobs for a few weeks.
We're planing an overnight trip up the river next and I'm starting to think about our first little cruise up to Moreton Bay.

I thought you got rid of the throat parrel and routed the yard hauling parrel like this.

Regarding the blocks Annie I think you may well be right there. There's not a lot of travel between them. The annoying thing is I managed to get the sail to set without the diagonal creases some weeks ago.