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  • 16 Jun 2026 10:23
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    Gary wrote:
    Graham wrote:

    Good luck with all these challenges, Gary.  I am anchored off South Currigee Camp on South Stradbroke tonight, Monday 15 June.  Plan to go back down to Bums Bay on Wednesday.  I am afloat but at least you have a junk rig!

      i spent two nights anchored off the VMR, a very rolly spot with all the boat wake coming through. At least you are on the water.
    Yes, it gets rolly here too, as I am right alongside the main channel going north, but it is quieter in a mid-winter midweek day.  I go right inside Bums Bay and wriggle in among the fleet if I can manage it.  No wakes and no wind against tide in there - the only spot like it between Southport and Bribie Island as far as I know.  Of course, it is loved to death!  You have to get used to people anchoring on top of you.

    I may be forced to build myself a 12m timber mast later next year for my junk rig project, unless I can get Arion's old alloy mast, since that poor boat is now lying derelict on the Nambucca River and will probably need to be scrapped.  Hard to get the owner motivated, though, which is why the boat is in the condition it is in, I guess!
  • 16 Jun 2026 02:46
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    Anonymous wrote:

    Good luck with all these challenges, Gary.  I am anchored off South Currigee Camp on South Stradbroke tonight, Monday 15 June.  Plan to go back down to Bums Bay on Wednesday.  I am afloat but at least you have a junk rig!

      i spent two nights anchored off the VMR, a very rolly spot with all the boat wake coming through. At least you are on the water.
  • 16 Jun 2026 02:43
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    Anonymous wrote:

    Hi Gary,

    I bet the crack was something to hear.

    On the bright side, this may be a good excuse to go ahead and remove all the chainplates. Your junk rigged boat will not need that nonsense.

    Scot.

    I'm going to leave them on, they come in handy for this sort of thing.
  • 15 Jun 2026 21:24
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    Hi Gary,

    I bet the crack was something to hear.

    On the bright side, this may be a good excuse to go ahead and remove all the chainplates. Your junk rigged boat will not need that nonsense.

    Scott.

    edit: I somehow spelled my own name incorrectly.

    Last modified: 16 Jun 2026 18:33 | Anonymous member
  • 15 Jun 2026 13:49
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    Good luck with all these challenges, Gary.  I am anchored off South Currigee Camp on South Stradbroke tonight, Monday 15 June.  Plan to go back down to Bums Bay on Wednesday.  I am afloat but at least you have a junk rig!
  • 13 Jun 2026 03:26
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    Just a small update on where it is at.

    Thursday:

    Okay despite the photo today was quite good.
    Now to explain the photo. The block and tackle is atttached to a chain from the ridgeplate of the roof. Unfortunately the boat is not quite centered under it. To tip the boat onto it's starboard gunwale I had to run a sling from the lower block to the wall to pull the lower block further to starboard to ensure an inboard pull on the raised portside chainplate. My mistake today was not releasing the sling to recenter the lower block. The result being instead of an inboard lift on the starboard chainplate i had an outboard lift pulling the chainplate away from the hull...in a word, bugger. So the inside bottom 75mm faces are glassed. I manage to glass a small strip into the aft end of the case but my attempt to do the same in the for'ard end just would not stay put. I might try again on Sunday, or I just might settle for a thickened epoxy fillet. Anyway I'll see how it goes on Sunday.

    So Sunday has been usurped by someone's birthday. Monday might be possible but I'm going to be waiting on a call from the hospital about Tuesdays knife work. I'm getting a skin cance removed from my right wrist. I expect to be out of action for two to three weeks.

    Anyway, apart from the little bit of epoxy work, and some paint, the boat "should" be leak proof around the centerboard case.

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  • 21 Oct 2025 10:45
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    Anonymous wrote:

    Gary,

    Another step closer to sailing! Keep at it.

    Curtis







    Friday looks like the day. Winds are 5 to 10kns, which I am happy with for first sail.
  • 18 Oct 2025 14:23
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    Gary,

    Another step closer to sailing! Keep at it.

    Curtis
  • 17 Oct 2025 02:45
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    Next step towards sailing happened today. The boat has moved from the forest to a storage yard near the river. 
  • 25 Sep 2025 04:15
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    Cancelled, the money for our unit has come through. So business before pleasure. At least the boat is all packed up and ready to go. 
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