Monthly Archives: January 2011

Finally I was ready to take her out down river.

After a month or two messing around on the river I got the mast up and rigged the boat

After a fair bit of work, sanding, filling in the through hulls etc it was time for launch! She floats!

When I brought her the boat was called ‘Soloist’ this reminded me too much of <ahem> ‘solitary’ pursuits. So I decided to re-name her Lexia, which was the original name.

I was keen to create positive buoyancy in the boat, so following some quick calculations; Personal 162kg x0.5 = 81kg (bike 10kg, clothes 35kg, food 55kg, water 30kg, torches 2kg, tat 30kg) People 146kg Anchor + batteries 40kg x0.92 = 100kg (Elecsol  125= 25kg 20m … Continue reading →

Pascal from Cardiff gave me a great deal on a new sail The sail came from the Boat ‘Golden Dragon’  which completed the transatlantic Jester challenge. The boat then came to a sad end falling off a trailer on the … Continue reading →

So I got the boat on the hard and started work..