2019-2020 Work
Haul out 2019-10-28
Bottom clean and ablative paint, done every year in spring
Top sides clean and paint, done every two years
Deck clean and paint, done every four years
Cockpit clean, patch repair, relocated shore power plug, sand and paint.
Relocate battery, shore-power panel, 12 volt panel and battery charger.
Install new navigation lights
2019-11-02 Shore power boat side junction relocated.
2019-11-08 Mainsail removed, main-sheet removed miscellaneous strings, ropes and lines removed and placed in cabin.
Prop removed and outboard loosened on mounting slab.
Ready for lowering the mast on the next dry, light wind and maybe slightly warmer day (high of 39 today). Lowered mast will be used to hang 5 to 1 block and tackle to pull the outboard from the well and place on transom bean outboard bracket for ease of service access.
Leaves from the adjacent platanus acerifolia removed from cockpit, this will be ongoing every time I visit the boat for the next few weeks. The cover will not going for another 4 or 5 weeks.
Bow ring attachment for bowsprit chain was bent during haulout (the sling slipped). No damage to hull, ring bolt turns and should be easy to remove and replace. The ring was bent but bolt was undamaged. I will work on this when the air and hull temperature is above 50 deg F during the day, and above 40 deg F overnight.
2019-11-23 Mast lowered and secured on temporary crutch on cockpit sole. I will relocate crutch to beam from cockpit seat to cockpit seat before lifting outboard from well on the next dry day (low 40's F and sunny today). The last boat was hauled out today leaving space for one emergency haulout. If no emergency haulout I can be the second boat to splash.
2020-1-11. One boat in slot for emergency haul-out. I can be the 4th boat splashed, a 3rd boat must be splashed to provide turning area for the travel lift.
Ulladh
Ulladh pronounced "ul-la" (n
ull lad).
Uladh the gaelic spelling for the territory of the U-Nail chieftains in the ancient Irish province of Ulster (English/Norse), originally the counties of Down and Antrim, but now including Derry, Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan, also referred to as Ulidia (Greek/Roman),.
Uladh was the home of a pre-celtic, cruithne (crew-en-ya) pictish tribe, who may have been descendants of prehistoric tribes indigenous to the British Isles since the retreat of the last ice age.
Evidence from cut marks on deer bones from more than 30,000 years ago found in the karst formations of the Burren probably from hunters suggest a homonid precence.
Archeological finds date first inhabitants (DNA evidence suggests dark or black skin and blue eyes) to about 6,000 BC and trade goods from Rathlin Island, County Antrim off the northeast coast of Ireland made from porcellanite stone appearing in Egypt and Crete by 2,500 BC.
The early tribes of Ireland where displaced by later waves of migrants from mainland Europe; about 1700 BC by bronze age tribes, celtic tribes about 500 BC, and in the past two millenia; Roman trading posts, Viking settlements, English plantations... and in the 21st century a welcome increasing diversity from the European Union and the world.
SV Ulladh (for vhf clarity I use "sailing vessel ul-la") is named for the territory of the first peoples to settle in Ireland after the retreat of the last ice age.
Fisksatra
Since 1949 Fisksatra Varv in the coastal town of Fisksatra Sweden, built fiberglass boats from dinghies to a 300 ton minesweeper for the Swedish Navy.
The Havsfidra 20's were built between 1968 and the late 1970's to Swedish Navy and Lloyd's certification standards.
The Havsfidra 20 and a larger version the Storfidra 26 where sold in the United States by Continental Yachts and Trawler Agency of Atlantic City NJ.
Havsfidra; sea-feather?
(fidra; to touch or tickle with a feather -Icelandic-English Dictionary, Clarendon Press 1874)
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