CentaurPipedream
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Reged: 20/09/2006
Posts: 1006
Loc: Essex
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It seems to have gone very quiet on here recently.....I wonder why !!. I have been working my way through the jobs list and find a remaining 20 or after the update this evening. They are all however fairly small things and so I'm feeling reasonably happy at the moment. I have started a “booking in” system meaning that once things have been “booked in” to the garage, then they stay there and move to the boat and to the boat only. All the non-perishable provisions have been bought and it looks as though storage wont be a problem (although sorting this is one of the 20 jobs on the list !). I had an engine scare a couple of weeks ago but it turns out to have been nothing other than a faulty oil pressure switch which has been replaced. Pipedream is now more or less ready, but heck does she need a really good scrub. Need to look too at the AIS which seems to be receiving only an intermittent GPS signal ….. another one for the list.
I am planning to sail round to Plymouth from the east coast w/c 5th May then back over this way for a couple of weeks to sort some work, family and sailing issues (planning a dash over to Ostend), then back down on the 28th. I am sure the next few weeks will absolutely fly by, as have the well, last 18 months or so since I first came across the Jester Challenge, and oh so foolishly started telling people I had entered.
I guess we are all pretty much doing the same thing at the moment, but how happily and how confidently ?. I guess I am at about 6/10 on the “feel good scale”. Where are you ? . . . and if you are aready tied up and waiting at Plymouth with not a care in the world, then the beers are on you 
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The jester Challenge is starting May 31st and I'm going to give it a go. Have a read of this ......... www.justgiving.com/alancharlton
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golden_dragon
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Reged: 15/03/2007
Posts: 15
Loc: Scarborough
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Congratulations, you must be the only one who is ready. I thought it was mandatory to finish the boat on the way to the start!
Check the MCA web site before blaming your AIS as they have been conducting jamming tests.
See you at the start, in fact you can assist me with some of last minute panicking!
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Glayva
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Reged: 16/12/2003
Posts: 201
Loc: Buckinghamshire
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After a test sail this past weekend I was ready to say to my spouse the boat is ready to head out into the Atlantic.  The fact the toilet doesn't work after I refitted it after it emulated a loose cannon around the cabin last year doesn't bother me, I have a bucket. I'm seriously shopping around for a second bucket after Eric told us he relies on 3 buckets, I'm hoping a second one may make me go faster. Oh and my deck level port nav light seems to have lost its lense [I blame the travel hoist, I always seem to lose one light as I enter or leave it], but I don't care as my tricolour is working with a brand new LED bulb. So I can go sailing for the next few weekends before I head for Plymouth. I'll leave the Crouch weather being fair on or around 18 May.
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"Those who would go to sea for pleasure would visit hell as a pastime."
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Lee_Shaw
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Reged: 01/06/2004
Posts: 535
Loc: Staffordshire
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I start my four month sabbatical on saturday. I've done a fair bit of the work I would have liked to, all I got left really is a scrub down below the water and change the anode. I'll be moseying my way down to plymouth along the west coast of beautiful welsh wales and living on the boat over the next month, I'm as giddy as a baby on a swing.
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Vaquero
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Reged: 07/05/2007
Posts: 19
Loc: River Orwell
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I hauled out mid August last year to start my bluewater refit - with a target of finishing by end March this year. Then at the end of March I realised that I'd achieved that, more or less. But only by working almost every weekend and most nights, late into the dark cold freezing winter nights, the only sad soul in the marina working on his boat, panicking all the while that I wasn't going to make the start. And then the plan was to get down to Plymouth by the end of April, because I didn't have any spare time in May. So I finally set off towards the start line at 0500 5th April with a veeerrrrry cold NWly. Off Beachy Head, a forecast of N8 and snow made me stop in Brighton, thank goodness, arriving two hours before four inches of snow fell! On the next weekend, cold NW again and managed to rip off the starboard teak toe rail in rough seas off Portland. Good shakedown though, with the empty pages in my 'jobstodo' book filled up again! And my bank account and credit cards drained by Brighton and Mayflower marinas, and expensive teak for the toe rail. Drove down to Plymouth last weekend with tools and teak to replace the rail and finish off the job list...so, I think I might actually be ready. Whoever it was said the race is in two parts, the first being to get to the start line, was right - it feels like it's been quite a battle so far!
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sterenn
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Reged: 15/03/2007
Posts: 167
Loc: Paris France
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Bonjour John
If you haven't buy your new bucket yet, I would highly recommand the black or brown rubber concrete bucket.
They are cheap, unbreakable by any ... worker and confortable to seat on with "open hedges".
Eric
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Pourquoi faire simple quand on peut faire complique ?
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sterenn
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Reged: 15/03/2007
Posts: 167
Loc: Paris France
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Bonjour
For fammily reason , after a long decision making process, I will not be able to take part to the JAC08.
Anyway I'll be at the start, probably with Sterenn.
So I'm ready....
See you in Plymouth.
Eric
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Pourquoi faire simple quand on peut faire complique ?
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tomato
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Reged: 06/11/2007
Posts: 47
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Well sometimes I feel I’ve lost the list with the location of all of my lists. Feel good factor, I guess a sort of 5 / 10 until I know everything is ready. I’m sailing from Blyth, Northumberland so a good voyage before the start. Starting the “What happens if” list in my mind. Leaving Blyth 3 weeks before the race start and booked into QAB marina from the Monday before the 31st. Still got to finish fitting and testing the Hasler wind vane plus loads of small bits n pieces but generally “Helix” is 98% ready and looks great. (I am bias).
Very sorry Eric won’t be able to compete and hope he can make it to the start.
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tomato
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Reged: 06/11/2007
Posts: 47
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Making lists of things to go onto Helix rather than lists of work to be done on her. Feel good factor just jumped a couple of steps.
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tarik
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Reged: 16/02/2007
Posts: 83
Loc: Kent
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If any of you are calling into Ramsgate on your way South please PM me and I'll happily meet up and buy you a drink or three for your trip !!
David
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