12 th September

Nuts back in its birth space.  Dropped the mast and dragged Nuts back inside the workshop to finish off the deck.  Very easy with a simple support on big castor wheels.

Drilled the cleat holes 5.5mm for 5 mm bolts. 

Holes for my home made deck organizer.  6.5mm diameter for 6mm bolts.  I overdrill by .5mm on each hole so I can coat the inside of the hole with epoxy.

More holes drilled for safety harness and secondary mainsheet fixing u bolts.  I have made 2 possible positions for the main sheet.  One as on the plan on the cockpit floor as well as one above the companionway on the deck.  Will experiment with both options as well as a double mainsheet on the deck.  Just back from coating all the holes with epoxy to seal the plywood.  I will give it a day or 2 to cure then fit the cleats and safety harness u bolts.  

Finished the boom and got the sliders for the kicking strap, sheet and vang riveted into position.  (got several options for the sheet position)

I just want simple and easy to work with.  

Decided to put a topping lift on.  A bit of a pain with a square top main but safety aspect as a secondary main halyard overcame my reluctance.  Just going to use 3mm chyneema and hope  for the best.

Weather for fishing was a bit iffy (for where I was hoping to go) so only heading off on Saturday.  Mrs Nuts hates fishing but sister Nuts loves to fish so we will try on Saturday.

Got confirmation today that all my paperwork for MMSI has arrived in Poland and the process is  proceeding.