Repairs and adaptations

Preparing for Translemanique is a good occasion to check the boat and do some general maintenance. Here are some of the things I've done in the recent days. Special thanks to Tim Foster for his precious help and suggestions!

• Prepared the two missing barber-haulers (the single old one is now a spare one)
• Installed a new main traveller (the old rope really didn't look trustworthy). The final length of the new one is still to be decided.
  
  

• Added a missing spi halyard pulley
  
• Fixed a system to hang the spinnaker bag (perhaps still to be improved)
  
• Replaced a broken emergency blinking light
  
  
  
• Fixed (partially) a pin to hold the normal (non-regatta) mainsail in the mast
• Checked navigation lights
• Charged the battery
• Added tell-tales on shrouds and the backstay
• Marked the lines: bowsprit (fully out), tackline (prefeed position), spi sheets, spi halyard

And then of course, there were many adaptations for single-handed sailing:

• Prepared lifelines: one across the cockpit (red rope on the picture below) and the other to the bow and back
  

• Fixed without drilling (not permanently) a tiller lock - I will remove it after the race. For the tiller extension not to be disturbed, I added pads to lift it.
  
• Installed the steering rope with elastics using that tiller lock (red and black on the picture below)
• Installed another steering rope, going via pulleys to the bow and then back (white rope on the picture below) - it allows adjusting the course from anywhere on the boat!