This weekend spring (or rather "early summer") finally arrived in Stockholm with almost every boat owner out and about to enjoy a day's work and also a day in the sun. 17 C degrees is after all not common place in Sweden Mid April so I guess most of us enjoyed every bit of it.
On "Josefin" the focus was on deck and cockpit woodwork and keel. A huge thank you to Karin for all the help with the rails and cockpit woodwork - that end result was truly perfect. I worked on the keel and grinding does take its toll on your back and shoulders. With some 70% of the grinding done today I will (hopefully) finish tomorrow. A couple of layers of primers and a few layers of antifouling on top of that should do the trick. It will be International Paint for the whole lot. As always it's critical to get everything below the "deckline" ready for launch date (April 30th) whereas the rest can wait a few more weeks. Brand new halyards for this season as well as a new spinnaker pole from Seldén (for the North spinnaker which is to be delivered in the coming weeks). One of the Lewmar locking cleats also needed a new spring so that was replaced as well (thanks for all the help Fredrik!). The fact that Lewmar charges 90 SEK for these corrected springs is downright lousy, considering that this was a design error for the original model. To summarize - a great weekend making considerable progress whilst improving the tan...
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