Friday, June 19, 2009

Final Preparations

The last bits of deck gear were installed on Arabella with two days to spare before this year's Round The Island Race...



Above: New halyard winch fitted to the mast.

Above and below: New Harken adjustable genoa track


In addition, a new outhaul had been fitted, which now gave a decent purchase when the time case for hardening it up. With new sails and all these go faster bits on board, and with her interior stripped out, Arabella was starting to look like a proper little racing yacht - if, that is, you were prepared to ignore her twin keels.