Waitangi Day Thank you Sail: As a ‘Mate of the Kate’ you are cordially invited to our annual Thank You sail on Friday 6th February, in company with “Flying Carpet” and your own boat if you wish. Choose which boat to sail out on, Join at 09;30, for the “Kate” at the…
Newsletter November 2025
Launching the new dinghy: Over the winter I have designed and built a customised tender for the “Kate” – a 3m long dinghy that will carry all the crew at once, yet be light enough to carry on the cabin top for longer passages. Launching it is a good excuse…
Newsletter September 2025
Over the winter we’ve managed a bit of painting and varnishing on the few fine days. Also the details of the electrical system have been completed by Captain Roy Purvis, electrical engineer, with a schematic wiring diagram that connects the ship’s system with the engine. (Roy sailed with me on…
“Kate” Newsletter January 2025.
The refit You may have seen the “Kate” on the Boating Club hardstand over Christmas for the annual maintenance, scrub and antifoul. Fortunately there were no major problems, just minor repairs and a topside paint job. Young Oscar Jordan-Wise was employed part-time to help and learn, I showed him the…
Spring 2024 Newsletter
Over winter some painting has been done in the rare intervals of fine weather, and the bowsprit was removed, scraped and given 7 coats of varnish in my workshop. On 5th October we laid the Kate alongside the piles, scrubbed the bottom and replaced the zinc anodes. Then on Sunday 6th we took her…