On the hard (winter of 2020-2021)

October 21st 2020 - April 25th 2021 Orkanger

This winter leaving the boat a long way from home felt even more sketchy than normal. Would the corona restrictions hinder me in any way to come to the boat when needed. In the end most things went well. The one restriction that stopped me from more visits was the general request to avoid unessential travels. To be honest not being able to visit my parent as often as I would have liked, hurt more than not being able to confirm that the boat is ok. 

I ended up with Christmas and Easter/spring boat work/launching day. But since nothing got damaged besides several bungee cords securing getting broken or lost their elastics. Thus my plan to avoid halyards slamming the mast - making noise didn't work as planned and the cockpit didn't work as well as it should have. 

Due to the work from "home" order I chose to go to Orkanger a week earlier than for a normal Easter holiday. One of the aims was to get more boat work done. Before launch.

But many of the extra (and ordinary) days was like this. In the end we, the boat owners that was to launch together, decided to postpone the launching with a week to at least get some decent weather for boat work. 

And some nice evenings to enjoy the surroundings.

(Luckily the noise of the industries and commercial port on either side of the marina doesn't show in images)

In the end though launch day came and everything that wasn't done has to be done with the boat in the water. Weather on launch day morning was not ideal - it had snowed during the night so first item on the to do list was to clear snow from the boat.

Since the dock was covered in 5-10 cm of snow I got the idea to drive up to my parents and borrow their snow shovel and clear the dock before eager (or panicked) boaters where run around with their boats swinging through the air.

Weather improved and before all boats was launched all snow was gone.

With all boats in the water there where a mess of stands and other items left on shore that had to be tidied before the boating season could start proper. I also had to launch my dingy that I store inflated under the boat during winter.