Engine Worship: Bristol Atomic Four

"Down on your knees" is how to appease the engine Gods. Sometimes you must embrace the engine with one arm on either side to turn a bolt on the back side of the engine. There's scarcely space for a hand, let alone a tool, to fit between the engine and the bulkheads on either side. If you want to see what you're doing, good luck. And take off your watch before giving yourself to sacrifice.
Seawater impeller replacement: check
Oil Change: check
New Plugs: materials acquired
New Plug wires: materials acquired
New Coil: materials acquired
New Coolant Pump: materials acquired

Annual McNish Wooden Boat Race

Savannah took 3rd in class on a gloomy day with light airs. In fact, it took 5 minutes to make the final 50 yards to the starting line. We crossed about 25 seconds after our start time. Light airs do not favor the small boats that start early. Gilbert Paquet took these photos, scaling the mast to the first spreader to do so.

Savannah Making Way

In the spring of 2010, Jiffy Reefing was added for the upcoming voyage from Santa Barbara to San Francisco.

This necessitated reworking the topping lift which used to run from the end of the boom to a block at the top of the mast and back through a block on the end of the boom and finally along the boom to a cleat near the mast. But Jiffy Reefing consumed all available space on the boom.

Oak Pin Rails have installed between the lower shrouds to accommodate the new boom topping lift and 2 flag halyards and the spinnaker topping lift. The topping lift now runs from the beckett of a new block at the top of the mast to the wooden block on the end of the boom and back up thru the sheave of the block at the top. It then runs down along side the mast to a block on deck and then up to a belaying pin (purple-heart) on one of the new pinrails