After 5,000 Miles, This Is The End of Our Sailing Life... For Now
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After 5,000 miles sailing across France, Spain, Tunisia and Italy, it’s time to put Rúna to bed for the winter. And it’s our final video aboard her as she goes up for sale!
In this episode, we take you through how we winterise and decommission our Excess 11 sailing catamaran for winter storage. We take down all the sails (mainsail, genoa and Code 0), remove the lazy bag and lazy jacks, wash the sails and lines in fresh water, climb the mast in a bosun’s chair, and lift the outboard and tender onboard for storage.
But this isn’t the end of the adventure! Next year we’re heading back out to sea as a crew of three 👶 Subscribe to follow along as we search for our next boat and plan sailing life with a baby 🔔
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Thanks to @SPINERA for our inflatable gangplank!
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In this video:
00:00 Intro
00:39 Cleaning the deck and lockers
04:06 Taking down the Code 0
04:38 Removing the lazy bag and lazy jacks
05:56 Mousing reefing lines
08:21 Taking our sails off
12:06 Pickling our water maker
17:01 Removing our life raft
20:29 Lifting the outboard and tender onboard
22:39 Goodbye Rúna, what’s next
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