The season 2014

The season of 2014 was a great season with a missive amount of new experiences and beautiful places in and out of Denmark. Three countries was visited and almost 2000 NM sailed.

Silverrudder 14' just outside of Faaborg, Fyn.

Even one festival was visited. Roskilde Festival 14' was a great surprise with "hotel" accommodations in Roskilde Marina. Nice to have a boat to sleep in after a long day and night at rock concert!!!

I can really recommend sailing your bat to festivals i Denmark. We have a lot of appointees fore that around 8 i think nice.

One night in Roskilde Festival 14 the band, Spids Nøgenhat

Nice component under Google Maps to display places visited. All places we visited this year.



Big things this year was definitely Silverrudder - Challenge of the sea going to Germany by boat and Agersø island.

Rødbyhavn, resting, a deserted place in DK.

Wismar churchses

Lubeck and German beers and good friends.

Big old witbread round the world race boat!!! 

Keel work and stuff.

 A trip to Walsted shipyard allways a nice experience. Top quality work and servise 5*****

Dybøl banke, Sønderborg.

Summer night swimming.

Kiel maritime musseum.

Kiel posters.

Silverrudder 2014'

The original brochure vol. 2

I got hold of another original brochure. In fact it where from Selden Denmark. They had one in the old archives.  If any has other originals with more text etc. would i really love to a hold of them scanned or else :)

Please enjoy!!

The first four is from one folder.

This one is in better form in vol. 1

Look at the winch placement the first models had them on the cockpit edge.

Nice sailing in Denmark.

The original upholstery the nicest i think.

The quaterberth in stead of cupboards

De stepping the mast

De stepping the mast for inspection and winter storage. We usely do take the mast down every winter to chck it and take the boat out of the water. This year the boat stays in the sea but the mast has to come of for som minor work.

I just begin with taking the instruments off before using the crane to take so i don't smash them in the process.

De mounting of the instruments: wind, windex and VHF

Good to be more then two people to de steeping the mast. I have good friends that help :)

Loosening all the turnbuckles.

Turnbuckle teamwork.

Disconnecting the mast electronics inside the boat.

Him self in the mast. Good tip is to attach the crane a bit over the balance point.

Attaching the crane.

Preparing the crane for the big lift.

Again placing the hook for the crane.

All the halyards has bin taken out for washing. the mast has been washed and preped with Hempel Alu protcect. Ready for inspection by Stolz Riggerservice. 

Result of the service showed that the mast where in good condition after 30 years (1984) on the high seas. The stays has to be chanced in the comming years beginning with the backstay a new has been ordered for april the others will be chanced next winter. 

Mast ready for the winter.

The new home for the mast juring the winter.

Ready to place the mast in the shed.

The original price list anno 1983

Found a copy of the original price list on a Dutch website. Check it out its in Danish only sorry for the international reader. If there should be a wish for it i can translate it?

Extract from the Dutch list. All there was on Bianca Lido.

Cockpit teak refurbishment for winter

I did a little prep work in the teak en the cockpit prepping it for the coming winter. I don't cover the boat so the teak needed some TLC to get it through the winter.

Sanding the cockpit benches.

I sanded the cockpit with sandpaper 100 at first and finished it with 150 gran.

More sanding.

After sanding the teak I treated it with a thick paste of soap. Mixed thick of soap flakes and the just covering the teak with it three time then letting it rest over night and washed the rest of the soap treatment of. i got some help from the rain but it has to set over 24 hours.

Soaping!!.

Soaping in a thick layer.

More teak in the companionway.

Nice cofee enjoying the result of the hard work.

End result.

Closeup.

New and old cleats and rope clutch's from Easylock

I had the problem with the number cleats that came with the boat when i bought it. It laked the correct number off cleats. The boat is outfitted with deck organisers for ten sheats/ halyards. The boat laked three...

The boat as it came with only seven cleats.

I planned to outfit the boat with: 3 halyards (main, genua and spinnaker), 1 spi- downhaler, 1 boom vang, 1 outhal, 1 cunningham, 2 main reflines and boom uphal.

Easylock Midi - cleaning.

I bought two Easylock Midi - double (gray) used on the web. Cleaned them and the old Easylock Maxi - trible and Easylock 1 - trible.

The inside similar to the Maxi.

The cleats is okay easy to clean just keep track of where everything is going. I just cleaned everything in dishwashing soap and it worked out fine.

Almost new. Works great.

Portside.

Two halyards are moved to the portside off the boat. Because it's here the two gear winch is. Wich makes it a lot easyer to get the right tension on the forestay and the main. Here you see the two halyards (main and genua) the boom uphal and outhal. the last place is for the second ref ind the main.

Starboard.

Here we have the boom vang, first ref main, spi- downhal, cunningham and spi- halyard.

New charger with Sterling Power

The old charger died a slow death and the need fore a new one occurred. The old where a Tystor black one. It started to overheat and smell of "burnt" electronics. The hunt was on fore a new one and after a big search through the market (Mastervolt, Ctec, Victron etc)  where the conclusion that it should be Sterling Pro Charge Ultra Battery Charger 12 volt / 30 Amp. It won a couple of big test (See the link) and it can  start charging from a shore power supply of only 105 volts. And a very good article on the choices in choosing a new charger here: ChargingIt: Not All Battery Chargers are Created Equal. Another very important feature is its super quiet compared to a Tystor and has no problem living in a cupboard.

The new charger Sterling Pro 12 volt/ 30 amp. Charger.

Still a small job to do with cleaning up the cable and strapping it down. Now a cable runs to every single battery 2 x 105 amp consumer  batt. and 1 x 60 amp starter batt. Enough to run the ship at anchor with instruments, lighting and fridge for 3 days 247. I sailed alone with all instruments on and sailling only by autopilot and the voltage did not run under 12 volt in 33 hours.

The old Tystor charger.