Rosie Free is now about ready for her winter snooze. Had a great final sail of the season with some friends. Wind was pretty much perfect and we had the old Centaur heeled nicely as we clocked up nearly 5 kts in Horsey Mere.

I only thought to dig my phone out for some pics right at the start so missed capturing all the fun.

We sailed for a good three hours before making our way to Martham. It was getting a little gusty by the time we arrived and had to potter up and down before we eventually found a gap.

Helped to tie up by a couple of friendly anglers we set about the task of taking sails down and removing her boom. Somehow the genoa halyard found its way inside the furler foil so I’ll need to do some creative wiggling to sort that out once the mast is down.

Hopefully I will get one or two of the winter jobs done before Xmas. Top of the list is replacing the cockpit drain sea cocks as one as jammed shut and they both look a bit overdue for replacement. This will be by far the biggest task. But I’m strongly considering routing the drain out of stern instead of out the bottom. I will have to think about this alot.