Haven't posted in a long time!

No, this blog is not dead, it was just that we had a lot of distraction the last 3 years with a little baby on board now :-). 

New crew onboard!

So what has been going on with Constance meanwhile? We haven't taken her out for many trips, really only when we had visitors so that someone was always there for the little one.  I spend some $$ on fixing and upgrading stuff: 

- Installed a new solar vent in the place where the front deck dorade was. That vent starts working whenever the sun is shining and sucking out air from the boat. As a result the boat is much drier inside and we didn't get much mold in the winter any more. 

- Installed double life lines to be offshore compliant

- Replaced the steering cables as the old ones started to fray

- The roller furling unit broke so I had to buy a new one (Profurl C230). That also came with a new somewhat stronger forestay (9/32"). Also replaced the wire jib halyard that had some kinks in it. 

- Replaced bilge pump with a unit that has a check valve to prevent syphoning into the center board trunk. 

- Got a new main sail cover and front hatch cover.

- Replaced the starboard windows with Lexan. They started getting cracks and were leaking. 

Cracked windows before..

.. and after fixing!