martin Perry
Folks,
I plan on drying my Sonata out in late July to give her bottom a buff up before Cowes Week. This will be against a brick wall and onto a concrete slab. Has anyone out there got experience of this operation that they could share with me? Any tips or cautionary tales would be gratefully received. Thanks, in advance, for your help and I hope to hear from you soon.
Regards………Martin Perry (Buster, GBR 8092N)
martin Perry
Thanks to Michael for his advice. For the record, I have now successfully dried my Sonata out and found the following actions worked:
* Leaving the 4hp, 2-stroke out board on the stern, plus having the anchor and chain under the cockpit floor, balanced the boat fore and aft.
* Copious fenders.
* Mooring lines were left slack but weighted with water filled buckets to ensure the hull was against the fenders the whole time the tide was falling.
* All weighty items below stored on the wall side to give a slight list into the wall.
* Spinnaker halyard taken ashore.
* Truss her up like a chicken once she takes the ground!
michael cowper
sonatas tend to lay nose down so make sure you get all your wieght aft tie her up from the bow and dont forget your mast band to stop her falling out mick