I arrived in Honolulu a week earlier than the rest of the crew as we were chartering the boat and it was necessary to check the whole boat was ready for racing. This included:<\/p>\n
Stripping winches – two broken pawls found and replacement of a few springs<\/p>\n
Removing PHRF Halyards and cossing the spinnaker halyard in the mast<\/p>\n
Rebuild and calibrate Nexus instruments which wouldn’t calibrate for a number of reasons including position of gyro compasses.<\/p>\n
Satisfy Cat 2 regulations which included the addition of a bilge pump and automatic bilge pump<\/p>\n
Hoisting the boat out to grind down the thinly rolled on antifoul as it felt like 60 grit sandpaper. Sanding the bottom to 330 grit wet and dry took 2 days.<\/p>\n
Addition of a cunningham, reef line and tweakers for the spinnaker (stablised the spinnakers as the clew was very high cut and there are no shoulders)<\/p>\n
Mast tuning (we were happy to find we had speed on Tiburon on the practice day)<\/p>\n
As our crew were a total of 44 lbs overweight I ate nothing except slim fast shaves and managed to lose 16lbs during the week before weigh in. We were 22 lbs under class weight after everyone had weighed in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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