Am putting together a bit of a gear list and job list of things to do....
Is there any strength/peace of mind to be gained by going over poor joins
on
the boat with epoxy fillets? Any benefit to painting (besides appearance)
if I am only using an external veranda type paint?
As another issue, any items people think are 'must haves'? I tend to go a
bit overboard (no pun intended) with stuff like this and end up carrying
every little thing for every possible little contingency.
Will carry a small repair kit (lunchbox sized) with some fast set epoxy
repair putty that sets underwater, dacron sail patches, whipping twine and
needle, bailing wire, a few shackles, spare bungs. Another similar sized
box of first aid stuff. Some very basic clothes and food. GPS, mobile,
camera all in waterproof bags. Air horn strapped to mast, and V flag.
I will have a small new reliable outboard as alternative propulsion, and a
paddle (for what little use it is). Is it worth carrying a small anchor?
My first instinct is yes, but then it's one more thing to carry too, and a
small anchor may not be of that much use. I tend to pre-plan most of my
routes to allow for tidal currents etc, but say, if there is no wind and
the
outboard fails and caught in a bit of a current then an anchor could have
some use. I couldnt carry any chain, but about 40m of rope probably.
Worth
taking?
Any other must-haves, bearing in mind everything must be stored on the
trampoline, or before the mast on netting?
Thanks,
Shaun
"Shaun Van Poecke" <shaunvanpoecke@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:BEL3j.18637$CN4.18081@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi All,
> Am planning to drive with my partner from mount isa to airlie
beach/shure
> harbour on 22nd december for about 10 days. We will be taking our cobra
> cat 16 with us and hoping to island hop around for a bit, maybe stay a
> couple of nights somewhere. Ive fixed this boat up a bit and should be
> failry sound, Ive fitted an outboard bracket to it and will be taking a
> small outboard. Will be fitting a roller furler to the jib and thinking
to
> fit slugs to the main? Will be taking a GPS and hoping to use phones
for
> communications. Very basic stuff also taken; hammock, few clothes, small
> camp cooker, water. Most of this stuff will stay in waterproof bags.
> There is no storage space on this cat unlike the cobra cat I had before.
>
> Any advice out there from anyone re: sailing a small beach cat in this
> area? Some random questions include; is this boat undersized for this
> area? What are the winds typically like at this time of year? Will we
> find places on any of the islands to camp? permits required? good cell
> phone signal everywhere (will we need a radio?) any reasonably priced
> places to stay? random sailing/safety advice?
>
> I have 'cruising the coral coast' and will be bringing it along. This
is
> more a holiday trip than a sailing trip, we plan to sail an hour a two a
> day, or maybe not at all with the rest of the time spent trying to stay
> out of the sun, listening to a bit of music or reading a book. Neither
of
> us have ever visited this area before so we dont really know what to
> expect.
>
>
> Following is a bit of a half re****t on my trip down to sydney a couple
of
> months ago which some of you may remember;
>
> Basically, I had a great time! i was down for 9 days but only
> went sailing for 3. The rest of the time was taken up with riding,
> catching
> up with friends, and a wedding. The one bad thing that happened was i
> went
> to have a look at the beach cat that i still had down there and someone
> has
> stripped it! Some of you may remember last year that someone stole my
> trailer. This would have taken a fair bit of trouble as the boat was on
> the
> trailer at the time, with the mast up and everything... they have taken
> the
> boat of and left it there but pinched the trailer. Sadly it is most
> likely
> another cat sailor too. I went down to have a look at the boat to
decide
> whether i would try to organise some way of getting it up to mount isa,
> only
> to find that someone has stripped most anything of value off the boat.
> Roller furler and jib both taken. This required lowering the mast, and
> quite a few tools so it was probably premeditated. They would have had
to
> bring a drill
> because a lot of the stuff was riveted to the boat. Most of the
hardware
> which was all new last year is pinched too; cleats, blocks etc all
taken.
> A
> real shame to see something like this happen (and an even bigger shame
it
> happedned to me!)
>
>
> Other than that the trip was all great. We chartered a compass 29 from
> church point charter which i have chartered before, The boat had a new
jib
> and they had recut the main. The boat itself was in fairly good
condition
> for its age, but had a few small problems that wouldnt have taken much
> money
> to make them right. There were no line holders for ropes, rope was used
> instead of sail ties etc... just little things like this. One of the
> winches seemed to be missing one tooth on the ratchet as it wouldnt
'lock'
> in every position. On top of that there was only one winch handle, glad
> we
> didnt drop it!
>
> The first day was straight forward, picked up the boat at about 9am, and
> headed out. We had a strong wind warning with 30-35 knots expected
which
> was a big improvement over the previous year when i went out for 8 days
> and
> got about one hour of sailable wind in all that time! It was a steady
15
> knots on the way out but i was pretty cautions and had reefed down. I
> shook out the reefs and enjoyed the motion, but by the afternoon it was
> starting to come on a bit. By the time we came up to round the head and
> go across to patonga, I had the jib completely furled (furling only),
and
> was motorsailing with the main fully reefed. The reefed main didnt
really
> provide any forward motion, but it kept the boat nicely heeled over and
> stable, gave us more freeboard on the windward side which kept us a bit
> drier. But i still got totally soaked! There was a bit of a bushfire
> going on, but we got upwind of it. I've forgotten the name of every
> little bay/harbour etc so I cant name stuff, but we spent the first
night
> on a mooring just around the corner in the cove there from patonga
beach.
> The next 2 days were good sailing, steady winds and had a great time.
> Returned the boat Friday morning and headed back home.
>
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