8 nautical miles
Morning sail with Tim, not too far so that he could get back to the clinic asap if needed. Seems like Tim's mum is on the mend, but still not home and fighting fit.
We started with main, genoa and mizzen sails. We hadn't put up the mizzen for a while. It gave us almost another knot of speed. There is only one back stay on the mizzen mast which gets changed from side to side when we tack. Getting it round behind the end of the mizzen boom is a pain. It looks possible that we can put up two backstays and move them in and out to make that easier.
When we got back to the marina we did a couple of odd jobs and then Tim's mum rang to find out if he would be coming to help her with lunch. Sound like she really is on the mend.
After lunch we started to move the windlass breaker to from the side of the navigation station to the back. The reason for this is that it's too deep and so the panel won't go back on with it on the side panel. Sadly in doing this we cracked the back panel... well... I say sadly but I am not too unhappy about it as I really want to renovate the nav station and so a cracked panel just says 'do it sooner rather than later'. Personally I think we should do it in mock teak to match in with the rest of the saloon.
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