Bristol-Blue Lake Michigan Sailing Adventures

  I made it down to the boat last weekend. These warm days pushing 50 degrees make it crazy tempting to pull the covers and get to work.  I suspect Mother Nature is about to throw a giant snow ball at us.   In anticipation of more snow I pulled the cover off the bow to take a few measurements and recoil the roller furler. For now I'm leaving the cockpit covered.  Spring can't get here soon enough and there were no shortage of people in the yard working on little projects today.

 Thinking Spring will be here soon so we can get back to this. 

 Down to take some measurements today.  It's pretty frosty but the cover is holding up.

I discovered that my Mirage 24 fore triangle set up is very similar to that of a J-24. So I was able to pick up a good condition used racing sail for cheap to replace my aging Genoa. This weekend I laid it over my old sail to check the dimension would work and then got to work converting it for my furler. This is an easier conversion than last year's as the sail leading edge is sized perfectly for my furler application.  Here is the link for the process from last time.  This was much easier I simply removed the hanks and sewed the sail tape on.  No cutting or dimension changes for this sail.   Merry Christmas Here is a Quick Video I clipped together of the Stitching. @chrisbroadwater0 Sail Repair for Woodstock. ##mirage24 bristolblueblogspot.com ♬ Holly Jolly Christmas - Michael Bublé

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 The season has come and gone.  I have not done a lot of posting this year in the blog but we have sailed once or twice every week this summer.  A lot has gone right this season we day sailed, weekend over, and have had a good time sailing our Mirage 24 up and down the coast.  This season we pulled late but the weather here was not conducive to sailing on the weekends. So we visited the dock and kept to our own area social distancing being the theme of the season.  Removing the Genoa from the furler.   Bimini removed for the season.  This photo is mostly to remind me how to put the framing back next spring.  With everything off the boat looks a bit lonely there in the water.  Once on the hard, it is time to winterize the sink, head, and drains.  This season we are leaving the mast up in the boatyard. Now comes the process of figuring out how to frame the deck for tarping.  The neighboring boat went the shrink wrap route.  24 hours after the wrappers left the entire inside has started t