Dinghy Dumping

Being short of cash, I had a hunt around for things to sell on the local trading/classified site. The GRP dinghy I bought over the winter was on the hit list of things to go. It had taken on water through a damaged keel since day one, but had recently got a lot worse, it was also really heavy and one of the gunwhales was coming adrift.

I went down to the harbour today to show it to someone that was interested. Didn't want it, but did help me get it out of the mud, up the stairs and onto my car roof rack. Thanks Doug. However, on reflection, I decided that it wasn't worth bringing it home to repair, so I pitched it straight off the roof rack and into the dumpster.

It did tow nicely and was good to row single handed, and it was handy to have a crappy dinghy I could leave at the harbour and not worry too much about. No regrets about dumping it though.

In for the Winter

Tonight I cycled down after work and brought Kamala in to her Winter berth in the inner harbour. It was a balmy evening and I fancied swimming out to get her, given the waterlogged state of the dinghy.

I had earlier picked up the new genoa from the post office so was pretty laden, with changes of clothes, swimming gear, sailing shoes etc.

Friends who have a rather fancy cruising RIB were walking down to the harbour and offered me the use of their dinghy. I readily accepted when I saw the chop from the easterly kicking up around the outer moorings. The bluff front of their dinghy and the wheels built into the hull made rowing seem like hard work.


The new genoa needs a thicker luff rope and so couldn't be fitted straightaway.

On this same evening, there was an unveiling of a new memorial stone to mark the sailors from St Aubin who went to the Gaspe peninsular.