Timbo Tara
the adventures of, part 2
Timbo at home
Resting in Birdham
timbo on a mission
Limited mostly to trips to and around the Island.
Need another pandemic?
timbo diddly do
Needing fresh air adventures
Early on, a trip to Swanage and back became a bit of a nail biter. Coming back after an early start, the offshore wind just grew and grew. I only had my small jib up and by the time I hit the Needles I was topping 10 knots over the ground. By the time we hit gentler waters the sail had completely disintegrated, torn from top to toe.
Luck was on my side. A quick scan of Ebay , I purchased an unused Sobstad Genoa for little money.
Timbo is an old boat, and I wanted to try her with a regular Spinnaker, so I got my hand on a red and white one by Holt, so very old. This worked a treat, but my poleage was not really up for the task, so when I saw a brand new spinnaker advertised locally I swapped back to asymmetric. Boy is this sail powerful.
By October, I noticed the mainsail fabric finally crumbling. So I looked to have a new one made. But as luck would have it, the algorithms of the ether yielded up a new set of North Sails.
Now i'm just waiting to give these a blast..
