SV Loukia

They are soooo simple yet so useful. Watched a few YouTube videos ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNRsDz2KTsE ) on how to tie them and we are now converts.  Yes I know, late to the game. I'm probably over excited because it was only a couple of weeks ago I was attaching a halyard to our staysail (yes it's a hank on) and dropped the pin into the water.

Sometimes we have to work it's not a bad office though Just to let you know it's not all 'fun and frolicing' on the water,  we also do some work while on board.  Since we got our Starlink it's a bit of a game changer for us as we can extend our weekends away and work onboard.   It's lucky we are both able to do some of work whilst away.  I actually think I'm more productive on the boat? Still running the Starlink on 240v via our inverter which is not very efficient so I have bought the components to convert it to 12v....will keep you posted on that project

It turns out our heat exchanger was blocked O n the way back from Fitzroy I noticed the engine was running hotter than normal so the next weekend we went out to the boat and I pulled the end caps of the heat exchanger. From the photo, it's clear what the issue was.  Fi found some suitable wire we could use to push through each tube and clear out the muck.  A few of them were blocked completely that we couldnt clear so a more thorough clean will be required.  Put it back together and went for a test drive.  Much better, temps back to normal.  We now have a new 6 monthly job to do.