SV Ulladh (ul-la): June 2020

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

June 2020

2020-6-19 Sanding and penetrating epoxy to kort inspired nozzle early in the morning. I left the sander on a picnic table at the yard but it was still where I left when I returned that evening. Yard was full of cars and weekend boating activity had commenced. So no work on the boat until Monday morning early.

2020-6-17 bow ring replaced, previously damaged during haulout

I am only doing minor work on the boat during Covid-19 and only on mornings that will have few people at the boat yard. I will not splash in June but will wait and see how July and August go.

Working on the outboard well motor mount and cockpit drain. Added more PineSol to bilge. I will work on the cockpit and bridge deck after the motor is reinstalled in the outboard well, then deck paint.

If I don't splash in July, this will be time for working on electrics.

If I don't splash in August the boat will not splash this year, so perfect time to repaint the interior.

September will be topside paint.

October will be bottom prep ready for spring bottom paint.

2020-6-12 Worked on the boat at 6:30 AM for two hours, no one around and light traffic. This is probably the time I will work on the boat to limit exposure during the second Covid-19 wave, but I anticipate a return to the "stay at home" order in a few weeks. I will try 5:30 AM for projects that take more time, to be out of the boat yard by 9:00 AM

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Ulladh

Ulladh pronounced "ul-la" (null 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)