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Winter Quarters

Winter Quarters

March Approaches

It is nearly March and bookings have been very strong with only a few berths remaining up to September.

Winter Maintenance Programme

The Main engine overhaul is complete at last, The engine mountings arrived after Christmas which enabled the job to be completed.

Corryvreckan did not come out of the water in January as planned and inconvenient weather and Tides conspired to delay the haul out until March 1st when with the noble assistance of Brother Tony and Uncle Stephen we managed to haul out, treat the Hull and antifouls and relaunch all in one week.

So we are now back in the and cursing the continuing delays associated with "Next Day deliveries" up here.

Many of the bilges have been repainted, Seat covers are ashore for cleaning, Carpets will be fitted soon, the rigging surveyed.

Most exciting, we are awaiting delivery of some tiny springs which we hope will enable us to repair some of the locker catches. It has taken months of research to find a supplier of these springs now that we have found the modern replacement catches simply do not work. Hopefully the "rubber band" solution will soon be a thing of the past.

Almost as exciting we will soon have replaced those rubber things in the showers so all you have to do to empty the waste water tank is touch a button and the tank will be pumped for an elec tronically determined period. Mod cons!

After a long winter the new sailing season is starting to "loom" alarmingly, but hopefully the full maintenance programme we have undertaken this year will stand us in good stead as the systems have all been extensively overhauled and we can now focus on the "cosmetics".