If anyone thinks that their Swift may be nearly ready for Florida but they
wish to attend, I would suggest that you should start thinking about the
operational aspects rather than spending many hours on the finish at this
stage. You can always spend the next winter taking the "learning" scratches
out of a moderate finish, but have a good season of sailing in between. You
will probably get the anti slip in the wrong place anyway and end up having to
re-do this at the end of summer.
The last minute things that can take a huge amount of time are things like:
fitment of CB blocks and finishing of boards, unless you are working on it
full time, a month is probably not enough to finish these parts off. You
cannot sail the Swift without these blocks fitting really well.
Spars and vang parts- You can probably finish your mast and boom in two to
three weeks of part time work, but the parts that seem to take time are the
spreaders and the vang parts.
Lines and ropes- switch off the TV, tying the rigging for your new Swift is
way more productive and can be done in the TV lounge! I have just completed a
full set of rigging while staying in a Bed and Breakfast on Vancouver Island.
Great project for those of you that travel as you dont need a lot of heavy
tools. All you need is the rigging manual, your line and parts, tape measure,
knife and whipping. Length of rigging on the mast and boom is fairly critical,
but for the deck there should be a lot of help in setting up the right lengths
in Florida.
hope this ongoing banter helps
Roger
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