Sasha goes to Spain

Sasha was sold and goes to the new owner in Spain. After so many years in the cold North Sea, she decided to move to the Mediterranean sea. She is located now in Adra, Almeria. We wish a lot of fun and happiness with her to Arturo, Fiona, and their wonderful family 🥰.

Summer Sailing 2021

 Great Summer so far. Finally fit enough to sail again :) How awesome is that :)

Launching 2021

I did not sail in 2020 because of my injury, and Sasha got really hairy :)  I had everything cleaned proffesionally.

The marine service in Scheveningen Van Veen did the maintenance, and I used again the Sirocco NL antifouling, the same as in 2019.

Now the beautiful Sasha is ready for action.

Season 2020 postponed.

I got my Achilles tendon totally ruptured in January and I just started walking slowly, slowly last week. I do not have the confidence to try sailing yet, probably will be fit enough in the mid summer.
However it does not mean that I could not enjoy the excellent spring weather on the water with nice company 🥰🥰🥂🥂🍸🍾🥰

Out of the water for check

I though that there is some problem with algaes on the hull because under motor I had a feeling that Sasha has some diffculties moving. When I got her out it appeared that some plastic bag  was rolled up the propeller. Fortunately there was not any damage. The good news are the the new antfouling which I tried in the beginning of the year works perfectly for the Scheveningen harbour. I manage to get some shots at Sasha from above :) Could not resist to share them.

Lucky that did not get any damage :)

New antifouling works perfect, thats how she looks after 8 months in the water :)

Beaty from above starboard :)

Beaty from above bow side :)

Beauty from above stern side :)

New batteries for Sasha.

I had difficulty to start the engine in the open sea few times. Resolved the problem on spot by switching off all the electronic equipment and trying again to start the engine. It worked... The old batteries were like 8 years old, and decided to go for two new 105 Ah batteries.  Now the engine starts without any problem :)

Sail Scheveningen

Sasha also took part in the sailing parade of Sail Scheveningen. I think the event was a great success. It should be definitely repeated.

The small boat is the Dutch frigate Shtandart replica of a boat built by Peter the Great in 1703 in St. Petersburg. Love it...

Opening of the sailing season 2019.

Beautiful day. I tried some new position for the GoPro camera. Looks good :)

The position appeared as excellent for selfies as well :)

:)

Launching 2019

2018 was very warm year for the Netherlands. I did not sailed a lot last year and the warm waters in Scheveningen made Sasha literally alive.

Those things were moving and they were looking at me :)

I had everything cleaned proffesionally.

The marine service in Scheveningen Van Veen, suggested to change the antifouling. This year I use this antifouling.

...and the beautiful Sasha is ready for action :)

First GoPro trial :)

I got a GoPro camera and this is my first GoPro video tryout with Sasha :)

 

Sailing in lonesome October afternoon.

I did not have much time to update my blog this year due to personal reasons. But long story short Sasha is still in Scheveningen, I redid the wood varnish, cleaned her bottom few weeks ago, did not have time to sail much in the summer.

I just love the looks of her bottom :) Isnt she great :)

After the cleaning she was like a rocket.

Lovely 4 Bft wind Sunday afternoon in the North Sea :)

Tachometer for Yanmar 1GM10

I was thinking about tachometer for Yanmar 1GM10. The original option of Yanmar were way too expensive, at least the stuff which I found in the net were above 200 euro. The cheap options like normal tachometers which one could find in the shops have to be connected to the alternator. The Yanmar 1GM10 does not have such an output and an extra cable have to be soldered. The Tiny-Tach is a great alternative. Simply you attach the transducer to the fuel pipe inlet, and it is basically plug and play. I went for their device for diesel engines Diesel Tiny-Tach. Looks good, and indeed it is tiny :) I ordered it directly from the US shop it arrived in the Netherlands less than a week after the order was placed. The price including the delivery was about 95 euro.

Uses a transducer on the fuel line which must be the correct size for the line-6mm, 7mm, 1/4.

it is tiny indeed :)

Zomeravond 2017

Great video made from a colleague R. Prins of the start of the clubs summer regata yesterday :) Sasha is the small blue boat at the end of the video in the middle of the screen :)

Some more May sailing :)

May turned out to be great :) Very good friends of mine from Bulgaria visited me, and we made their sea baptism in North Sea :)

It was their first ever sailing, apparently they are natural talents :)

Yesterday I also started the clubs regata season. Sasha did extremely good, should work on my start thought :)

Zomeravondwedstriden

The usual track looks like that:

It was beautiful evening :)

Some nice May sailing...

Its getting warm in the Netherlands. This year till the end of April the temperatures were bellow 12 C. Its getting better slowly. Some nice sailing video from the last Sunday :) Winds were about 20-25 knots apparent wind :)

Last works before the season.

It is supper funny, because my plans were to do nothing this year. Suddenly in February I was thinkig, Ok I should change just the windows to make my boat look cooler  :) At the end I ended up changing all the windows, paint the deck, paint the hull, changing the water outlet, changing the photovoltaics, now I got 50W cell, and of course all the small things which are associated  with those stuff ;) Anyway I finish today, after one month heavy works, and I like it how it looks :)

New deck paint.

Before the start of the season and after the change of the portlights I decided it will be a good idea to renew the deck paint.
In the areas where I walk I placed the Interdeck beige antislip paint from International.

Interdeck Sand Beige

In the other areas I went with the Super Gloss HS pearl white paint of International.

Super Gloss HS pearl white

New antifouling.

It seems that the idea about the antifouling from the last year is working. When the boat got out of the water the soft antifouling was washed out and the hard antifouling Interspeed extra was staying:

After that I placed on top of it new layer of Cruiser One antifouling:

Looks like we are ready for the new season :)

New portlights and deckhatch.

I decided it is about the time to change my boat glassing :) My friends were joking that now I will be able to look and see through my windows :)

For a deckhatch, I went for flushing deckhatch 500x370, R=42 from gebo from a local shop:

flushing deckhatch

The same type of deckhatch was recommended on Jeremy Rogers web page.

The portlights, fixings, and linings I got from Jeremy Rogers Limited:

portlights

Looks good :)

I installed the deckhatch so it opens forwards. The idea behind is when it is open in calm weather the accidental wave splashing will not come inside.

It is time now to paint the deck I think :)

Merry Christmas and Happy New 2017 year :)

Brilliant lighting at Scheveningen harbour during the holidays :)

Merry Christmas and Happy New 2017 year everyone :)