Below is the work we have done on Jingo since March 2016:
March 2016
July 2016
August 2016
September 2016
October 2016
November 2016
December 2016
January 2017
February 2017
April 2017
May 2017
June 2017
Bought
July 2017
August 2017
October 2017
November 2017
We bought
December 2017
January 2018
March 2018
April 2018
We didn't quite manage the following:
April 2019
Jobs we completed during our two week stay at the marina in Chaguaramas, Trinidad
Fuel Tank and Engine Room
Propellor
Rigging
Lightning Protection and Safety Measures
Jobs We Did Before Our Atlantic Crossing to the Azores in May 2019. This passage was 2700nm and 25 days
Jobs We Did Before Crossing From The Azores to Ireland in June 2021. This passage was 1100nm and 13 days
Engine/Power
- Commissioned engine after two years
- Checked: oil, anode, filters, refuelled, antifreeze
- Reset the engine mount
- Replaced, reconnected and secured batteries
- Checked the isolation switch
- Refitted solar panel
Rigging
- Raised and rigged the boom
- Installed mast heel bracket
- Checked mast head
- Replaced the forestay
- Replaced the backstay
- Re-rigged standing rigging
- Serviced winches
- Washed all of the lines
- Repaired mainsail slider
Hull
- Polished topsides
- Antifouled
- Attached anode
- Built new, transparent companionway
- Rebedded leaking portlight
- Resealed the lazarette
- Washed the bilges several times
- Cleaned water tank
- Greased seacocks
- Replaced cockpit drains and hoses
Navigation
- Checked electrical systems
- Checked navigation lights
- Set up bridle, jackstays and preventer
- Tested shortwave radio for sailing
Safety
- Installed a bilge pump
- Installed a bilge alarm
- New liferaft, fastened to the cockpit
- Two new life jackets
Provisions
- Dry good food shop as we were not using the gas cooker
- Fresh food shop a couple of days before leaving
- Checked and bought enough water
March 2016
- Fitted new chainplates
- Fitted new steaming light
July 2016
- Re-bedded leaking portlight on the starboard side
- Replaced both hatch lens with polycarbonate
August 2016
- Bought a 15kg Rocna anchor
September 2016
- Lifted out of the water for the winter
- Scraped barnacles of the hull
- Attempted to fix broken depth sounder (the original depth sounder from 1979)
- Mast was lifted out
- Bought 50 watt solar panel, EPIRB, heavy weather sailing gear
- Started work to repair water logged rudder
October 2016
- Bought 50 metres of 8mm anchor chain with 50 metres of octoplait nylon
- Made new fillets inside the lockers below where the chainplates sit on deck, so that we could re-bed the chainplates we installed in March
November 2016
- Winterized the engine
- Renewed the teak fittings in the cockpit
- Polished the hull
December 2016
- Fibreglassed and re-installed the chainplates
January 2017
- Replaced all of the lightbulbs with LED bulbs
- Painted inside the lockers where the chainplates were installed
- Sanded the hull in preparation for antifouling
- Sanded the capping rail
- Installed new rigging on the mast
- Re-installed mast
February 2017
- Installed roller furler
- Serviced the seacocks
April 2017
- Bought 3-blade propellor to replace our 2-blade propellor
- Bought cutless bearing for the prop shaft
- Serviced the winches
- Repaired the companionway hatchboards
- Sanded and waxed the interior locker fronts
- Sanded and varnished the tiller
- Made a new rudder from Norwegian spruce
- Sanded and painted the quarter berth
May 2017
- Re-wired the electrics
June 2017
- Fixed several leaks in the quarter berth
- Polished the topsides
- Antifouled the hull
- Made backing pads for the transom
- Installed the Hydrovane
- Rivetted a 'tang' in the mast, so that we could attach our inner forestay
- Took out the headlining in the forepeak
- Fibreglassed one of our old chainplates in the forepeak, so that we could attach our inner forestay to the deck
- Installed 50 watt solar panel
- Secured the outboard to the pulpit, by installing a wooden block for it
- Mended the upholstery in the saloon
- Waxed the gelcoat in the cockpit
- Secured the danbuoy to the pulpit
- Put Jingo's name on the stern
Bought
- 2.2hp outboard
- Depth sounder
- AIS (Automatic Identification System) receiver
- SSB (single-sideband) receiver
- Electronic charts for NW Atlantic and Caribbean
- Storm jib
- Working jib
- Collected our new boom
- Collar for the Hydrovane
- Bilge pump and flat hose
- Gas bottle and spare gas bottles
- Acetal sheaves for the mast
- Blocks for the inner forestay
- Car chatger adapter, DC converters
- 16kg anchor
- High load block for the inner forestay
- Day shapes
- Offshore flare pack
- 5mm dyneema for various uses
- Sheaves for the mainsheet traveller (x2)
- Diverter valves for the heads pump to act as a bilge pump
- Radar reflector
- Bullseye for the mainsheet traveller
- 'Y' connector for the main water tank and spare water tank
- Safety lines
- Nuts for the chainplates
- 'Q' flag
- Courtesy flags for all of the countries we will be visiting
- Sea anchor or drogue
- Butane gas for soldering iron
- Primary fuel filters
- Spare kit for our engine: fuel filters, oil filters, impeller kit, poly v belt, engine anode, 40 amp fuse
- Spares for the outboard: propellor and pin, gear oil, spark plug and impeller, wire brush and scraper
July 2017
- Installed bullseye for the mainsheet traveller (as ours was broken)
- Installed sheaves for the mainsheet traveller
- Shortened the backstay
- Installed the mast wedges (wedged the mast at partners)
- Installed the mast boot (or gator)
- Modified the tie bars for the chainplates (for the inner forestay)
- Installed the chainplates to the foredeck
- Installed a chainplate in the anchor locker
- Cut the forestay and fitted the cascade block
- Mocked up the purchase to tension the inner forestay
- Put all the split pins in the shrouds
- Put eyenut on U-bolt
- Put chain in anchor locker and lashed the anchor
- Re-commissioned the engine after being winterized for the last 8 months
August 2017
- Made soft shackles from dyneema
- Made an anchor light from a salt shaker bottle
- Bought new furling line
October 2017
- Mended sprayhood
November 2017
- Re-bedded the portlights, making sure they're completely watertight
- Fitted spare water tank, which has a 100 litre capacity
- Installed clasps onto the cockpit lockers
- Fixed the broken VHF aerial
- Secured various lockers with lashings and ties
- Secured the batteries
We bought
- Garmin InReach SE+ for weather forecasts and communications
- 14mm sheet for the genoa
- Safety harness
- Spinnaker tape (for repairs)
- Netting to make shelves in the wet locker
- Sealant
- Car charger power socket to replace our current one
- Courtesy flag for Suriname
December 2017
- Went up the mast and replaced the snap shackle with a bow shackle
- And replaced the shackle at the bottom with a soft shackle
- Fibreglassed inside of the wet locker to reinforce the bulkhead
- Made shelving inside the wet locker with nets
- Made food nets
- Leathered the tiller
- Leathered the pulpit
- Disassembled and serviced the Hydrovane
- Insulated solar panel wire
- Made new mast wedges
- Adjusted the rigging lengths
- Added a backstay insulator
- Lapped heads seacock using grinding paste
- Secured locker lids
January 2018
- Ground back the forward face of the chainlocker bulkhead and fibreglassed inside to make it stronger and stop future leaks
- Made bridle for spinnaker poles
- Secured saloon table
- Used loctite on many of the nuts and screws all over the boat
March 2018
- Lifted out
- Pulled the mast
- Removed the mast sleeve
- Inspected the mast joint
- Inspected the mast foot
- Removed fittings from the mast and removed corrosion
- Removed winches from the coachroof and made templates for where they will need to fitted to the mast
- Made and fastened a stainless doubler over a hole in the mast
- Polish and waxed the topsides
- Fixed keel damage
- Put an order in for a new boom cover and sprayhood with local sail makers
- Wet and dry sanded the hull in preparation for antifouling
- Washed and packed up the dinghy ready to swap with other sailors. It is illegal for visiting boats to sell anything in Trinidad
- Serviced lifejackets
- Made a list for grab bag
- Took all of the lines out of the mast and washed them
- Fibreglassed over and re-drilled the holes for the hull anode
- Reinforced the mast bury with fibreglass
- Epoxied the mast sleeve back into the mast and re-rivetted all of the old fittings with new rivets
- Removed the cockpit console from the deck and removed all of the five navigation screens, i.e. wind displays, depth sounder, speed log. We then fibreglassed over all of these holes, ready for a replacement unit, a new B&G Triton2, This will display all of the navigation information we need on one screen
April 2018
- From a sheet of stainless steel, Mattis drew patterns and made two winch bases for easier mailsail handling, a patch to cover and strengthen a section in the mast, and a fitting for the kicker
- Raised the waterline by 10cm by applying an epoxy barrier coat, sanding it back to make it flush with the hull and antifouling it to provide UV protection
- Aligned the engine. This was to stop any damage to the stern seal caused by the vibrations when the engine is running. We think our previous stern seal was possibly leaking due to the engine being misaligned
- Connected our B&G Triton2 to the new DST800 transducer with a NMEA 2000 backbone
- All of our electronic devices are now connected via NMEA 2000
- Re-wired the mast
- Installed new combined depth and speed transducer in a new fairing on the centreline
- Replaced stern seal with a PSS face seal
- Sanded the cockpit console and painted it grey
- Painted the rebuilt mast step
- Sanded and varnished the hatch boards and tiller
- Sanded to clean the propeller shaft and rudder stock
- Cast new rudder bearing using epoxy reinforced with colloidal silica and graphite powder
- Added beam to main bulkhead
We didn't quite manage the following:
- Fix the outboard
- Fix fuel filler cap (it cracked during our Atlantic crossing, which meant that sea water or rain water could potentially get into the fuel)
- Organise the electrics
April 2019
Jobs we completed during our two week stay at the marina in Chaguaramas, Trinidad
- Received our new boom cover, sprayhood and awning
- Removed stains on the deck and topsides
- Sorted through all lockers, food stores (threw out any dry goods that are no longer good), threw out any expired medicines, got rid of any extra weight, such as books, tupperware, anything that we aren’t planning to use. Thinking minimal!
- Cleaned the engine bilges
- Polished the topsides
- Re-organised grab bag
- Serviced lifejackets
- Removed all unnecessary cables from electrics
- Re-installed gas bottle
- Cleaned water tanks and heads
Fuel Tank and Engine Room
- Removed the fuel tank, cleaned and flushed it
- Re-installed fuel tank and filler, transferred diesel
- Made inspection plate and gasket
- Cleaned fuel pick up fitting and valve
- Removed old tank tab
- Replaced one section of breather hose
- Re-did all connections in engine room
- Aligned the engine
- Pumped fuel through system
- Double checked all engine mount bolts
- Checked if air and fuel filters needed changing
- Cleaned heat exchanger
- Recommissioned the engine: checked maintenance log, checked fluid levels, reconnected all hoses
- Tested the batteries
Propellor
- Aligned the engine; Removed the rudder, inserted and centred the shaft, checked the misalignment, installed new engine mount bushes to correct alignment
- Installed new stern seal
- Checked all seacocks and through hulls
- Polished corrosion off the prop
- Replaced the anode with an anode that is now on the propellor shaft
- Fibreglassed skeg back onto the rudder
- Ground back and antifouled GRP repairs
Rigging
- Rove in the halyards
- Made mast wedges
- Tuned rigging
- Made kicking strap
- Put cleats at the mast to make it easier to tidy away the reefing penants
Lightning Protection and Safety Measures
- We wanted to install an air terminal (aluminium point) for lightning protection, but we decided not to in the end
- We installed a copper grounding strip to port side of the hull
- Ordered a series drogue (in case of emergencies)
- Installed AIS (Automatic Identification System) transceiver
- Reconnected NAV lights and VHF aerial
Jobs We Did Before Our Atlantic Crossing to the Azores in May 2019. This passage was 2700nm and 25 days
- Checked lifeline lashings
- Checked jackstay lashings
- Checked shrouds/spreaders
- Stowed anchor
- Fitted storm board
- Filled both grab bags
- Set up AIS (Automatic Identification System) MOB (Man Overboard Beacon)
- Lashed mast to step
- Glued up any interior that needed glueing
- Fitted new battery or keep as a spare/emergency battery
- Fitted fairleads
- Finished rigging drogue
- Taped windows and solar panel
- Installed solar panel plug and socket
- Added weight to the Hydrovane to ensure better handling
- Calibrated speed log
- Cut reefing pennants (since we were now hoisting the mainsail from the mast and no longer the cockpit, we could get rid of the excess amount of line we had on the reefing pennants)
- Secured chart table and lockers
Jobs We Did Before Crossing From The Azores to Ireland in June 2021. This passage was 1100nm and 13 days
Engine/Power
- Commissioned engine after two years
- Checked: oil, anode, filters, refuelled, antifreeze
- Reset the engine mount
- Replaced, reconnected and secured batteries
- Checked the isolation switch
- Refitted solar panel
Rigging
- Raised and rigged the boom
- Installed mast heel bracket
- Checked mast head
- Replaced the forestay
- Replaced the backstay
- Re-rigged standing rigging
- Serviced winches
- Washed all of the lines
- Repaired mainsail slider
Hull
- Polished topsides
- Antifouled
- Attached anode
- Built new, transparent companionway
- Rebedded leaking portlight
- Resealed the lazarette
- Washed the bilges several times
- Cleaned water tank
- Greased seacocks
- Replaced cockpit drains and hoses
Navigation
- Checked electrical systems
- Checked navigation lights
- Set up bridle, jackstays and preventer
- Tested shortwave radio for sailing
Safety
- Installed a bilge pump
- Installed a bilge alarm
- New liferaft, fastened to the cockpit
- Two new life jackets
Provisions
- Dry good food shop as we were not using the gas cooker
- Fresh food shop a couple of days before leaving
- Checked and bought enough water