Sailing Arpex

Sailing Arpex today with my brother ewas a pure delight. 

Urca - Shore Base

I dearly love the place and circumstance in which Arpex is moored. It is a setting as lovely as you could whish, with splendid views at all 4 sides. Well,... any side, for that matter. And I have been working with the neighboring boats, in order to establish the Urca Sailors Association.

Having been elected President of this noble gathering of quite a variation of nautical backrounds, I have seen fit to produce a visual identity for the group. You will see this identiy here pretty soon too.  

At the pointy end

Yesterday I was lucky enough to receive the good help from my friends in order to climb the mast and install the second set of shrouds. The operation involved getting me to the top of the mast, then sleeving the shrouds over the windex, then help them down to the cleats, guide the halyards to the outside of the shroud's top loop, and finally get me down to the deck safely again. The mast lenght is only 9 meter, really, but nevertheless... 9 meters when seen from the top is much more than when seen from the deck. Since getting up to the top involved mostly my own effort to climb the mast itself, and added the suprisingly wild swinging when a powerboat came rushing by, I was pretty drained once I finished the job and came back down again.

Rogerio and Miller made a safe job, attending to the halyards that kept me up there for quite a while. Unfortunately I will have to go up again, eventually. Unfortunately I endeavoured in derange the windex reference flags. The is a bit wexing, when you want to keep your boat high on the wind.

But not before I grabbed my camera and took a very few pictures from the top. Afterall, an interesting new perspective. ... I am quite happy to have the new shrouds installed now. I was retaining myself and the boat, avoiding much sailing, because I wanted to have the planned reinforcement done. Now it is.

Sailing at last

Last weekend I finally managed to clean the hull, and go for a quick sail around the Bay. 

Sunset in Rio

Sundet in Rio. 

Vento - Los Hermanos

http://youtu.be/DeiYR0eST7U

Just another day going by

Unvoluntary Idleness

In the past few weeks I have had very little of Arpex. My job has kept me terribly busy, and the weather has not helped either. Therefore my time on the water has been terribly scarce. Hope to catch up, and mend this during this weekend. And I do hope you get to the water too.