Harry Heijst
Friday 21st July 2023
Another day of preparation. Richard arrived whilst Leen was still on his way. We tried to calibrate the compass, but in spite of 5 turns of 360 degrees on the Solent we did not succeed. We hoisted the main and the S1-L which was looking ok. That the Sevenstar logo was not in it, we […]
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20th of July. The first day after Berthon, on the Medina and the Solent.
Today we continued our preparation of Winsome. It was our intention to do some sailing in order to check our new sails G1 and G2 in our new Tuff-Luff 2206-59. For whatever reasons we did not sail out in the morning, when there was a suitable wind for this exercise, but only in the afternoon […]
Post by Harry Heijst | July 21, 2023 | 1 Comment | Comments RSS
Start of our final preparations at Berthon’s 19th of July i.e. 3,5 days to go to the start of RFR 2023.
Our flight to Bournemouth [EGHH] went well. We left Amsterdam at 05:00 UTC and arrived at Bournemouth at 09:30 UTC. Taxi to Berthon’s Lymington. We used the entire day to prepare Winsome. Berthon delivered us the boat with a new prop, installed a new Tuff-luff, filled our tank with nice drinking water from Lymington etc. […]
Post by Harry Heijst | July 20, 2023 | Comments Off on Start of our final preparations at Berthon’s 19th of July i.e. 3,5 days to go to the start of RFR 2023. | Comments RSS
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