Nov 042019
 

We spent our first season doing some fun and easy sailing around Lake Ontario and getting to know how our Najad 405 handles, a world of difference from our Niagara 35 Phantasia. Because Loon’s Lace had been primarily used as a day sailor effort was needed to get ready for Atlantic sailing. We decided although it was quite costly, we would move the boat indoors and  work all winter of 2018/19 on these major & minor upgrades in the shop:

  • Mast off – we needed to learn the un-rigging process for our fancy triple spreader furling mast
  • Boat in the shop and on the cradle
  • Sails in for service
  • Fly screens for 6 opening windows
  • Saloon lee clothes
  • Stern cabin lee clothes
  • SeatalkNG network upgrade
  • DC house battery bank upgrade to 675 amps
  • Cutter stay fittings added to the mast
  • New cutter sail from UK Sweden
  • Genoa cars rebuilt
  • Genoa tracks resealed
  • Bimini frame and canvas designed and installed 
  • 4 x 100 watt solar panels added
  • Propane upgraded from 2 x 5 lb bow to 2 x 20 lb stern tanks
  • Saildrive repainted 
  • Maxprop Easy installed
  • New fenders
  • Spade 140 and 275 feet of Magi G43 chain 
  • Matress lifts for the stern cabin
  • Waxed hull and bottom painted
  • Launched – June 2019 and almost ready to sail !

That way we could be well prepared for our first extended cruise to Newfoundland.

The big plan is to take the boat across the Atlantic to the Azores, Ireland, Scotland and Scandinavia. That’s still being discussed…   

  

                                                             

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