Kingfisher Yacht Cyprus

Added chain to the platform. Now just the ladder to fix.

As many people will know there is something called 'Mediterranean mooring' which means either bow to or stern to but not alongside the dock. In larger boats than Liza stern to is not a problem because there is an inboard motor and so it's just the stern of the boat that is against the dock (with a fender). But with an outboard any movement in high winds or error in mooring is likely to damage the outboard motor. Which means we have moored Liza bow to and one climbs over the pull pit to board her. So, what I wanted was what we tend to call a bathing platform which would actually allow one to step onto the platform from the shore and also protect the outboard motor. I designed the metalwork in CAD and had Technometaliki do all the bending and welding of the pipework, and AndreouLaser cut and fold all the other pieces. I must say Vasilli at Technometaliki did an amazing job on the platform I was really pleased. I bought some end of line composite decking from a Facebo...

Great day for a sail…  …and Lukas wanted a swim. Ooooh… that looks cold But the main purpose of the swim was a photo/video to make his friends in the UK envious! Now time to get out and warm up in the sun! Even in beanie and fleece  the cabin can still be warmer! Photo… touché!

Well, winter storms have begun. Last night and today we got up to 33 kt winds but gusting a lot higher than that. So I went down to check on Liza and she was sitting happily in her berth!

Not warm enough for all of us but Elisabeth went swimming!

The forecast from Windfinder showed a gentle 9, then 11 then 7 knots, with gusts of 11, 12 and 8 knots respectively from East, South East then South today. Just the day for taking out some friends of friends for a nice gentle sail then lunch and a swim behind the port. Or so I thought… Yesterday had been somewhat blowy.  That had been predicted, though the forecast was actually higher sustained winds and lower gusts. The gusts reaching 35 knots, according to windfinder . A gust is defined as a sudden increase of the wind's speed that lasts no more than 20 seconds. I've sailed through gusts before. Note in the definition ' that lasts no more than 20 seconds' . So with East then South East we headed north up the coast. Because of the strong winds yesterday (which seemed a lot stronger than the chart above showed for the average) there was a swell in the water which meant though sailing was pleasant and quiet the rolling of the boat was uncomfortable...

An irritating problem, and don't know if there are any structural diagrams for the K20+ Here's what happened: I fitted a new bladder type water tank under the starboard cabin berth. The filler pipe goes through the starboard lazarette/locker into this bladder. It works very well. This week in filling up the tank I didn't notice the filler pipe had come off the deck fitting... meaning that it filled up the starboard lazarette/locker. This overflowed into the void betwee n the locker and the under starboard berth... that void appears to be connected to a void under the main cabin, possibly under the cockpit... So there is water sloshing around there. Well, not just there. When I rewired the boat I put the battery in what was the starboard wet locker (we don't really need a wet locker in the Med, but we do need an electric cool box which is located there). So the cables went under the port berth. Somehow it appears that the under cabin void is connected to a void b...