A working day in Rendsburg (21/8-10)

The wire attachment in Bents right hand

Saturday 21-aug-10 started out with doing some planned repair on the Zephyr. Last year Bent experienced that a 20 ton+ vessel rammed into his aft on Zephyr, while the boat was secured in the port. The marine repair company doing the excellent repair on the hull, did not do so well when mounting the rig. They managed to deliver the boat back without working engine- and deck-light, with two port stay (babor stag) twisted and finally the VHF antenna still positioned in transport mode. None of these problems have had any impact for sailing or security (The top mast navigation lights and VHF has always been working). Anyway was the calm and nice Rendsburg marina was a perfect place to fix this problems. The electrical wiring was hard to spot between the mast footing and the cabin ceiling, but finally interesting to observe that the cable was actually not connected at all. When first found, this was easy to fix. The port stay went also really well all until Bent suddenly slipped the end block of the spreaders on the mast.


It first followed the stay wires it is holding, but managed to slip off and out in the water. Ok, no big deal was our first idea, and Kjell Arne started free diving after the lost block. That was too hard with a visibility of 10-15 cm on 4 meter depth. The very nice and service-minded people on the Marina-office, called a local diving instructor, Rudy, which was living only few minutes drive from the Marina. He found the block after 5-10 minutes of diving.

Rudy is preparing his mask before diving

Kjell Arne and Rudy are sharing experiences of the dives with 15 cm visibility