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Forethought 2010 log



This is now the story of year 14 of owning a GK24.  It has started slowly as I have spent 7 weeks out of the country on business so far this year. I managed to miss most of the snow in January.

I entered the Royal Southampton Frostbite series but only managed one race and missed two other weekends as too tired to take part. Two further weekends I was in Angola or Azerbijan followed by a trip to Borneo.

The main notable problem this year was a large lump of orange string which was around the prop, affecting forward speed slightly and astern almost completely. This had got round the propellor in September 2009 but I had run out of time to do anything about it.

And then by the time I got back to the UK for sailing in May, the antifouling had totally given up working and the hull was covered in weed. So I decided to go for Hard Racing antifoul : three days hard labour stripping and painting and the boat has one coat of primer and 3 coats of Hempel dark blue hard racing antifouling.



Round the Island  2010

The only thing that has failed and not been repaired is the topping lift has stayed jammed in the block at the top of the mast - I havent got round to fixing it as it happens to be stuck in about the right place.

November 2010 - back from the fourth trip overseas this time to West Papua,  and the sailing year is over. Now back to RIB duty on the Hamble Winter Series.
Forethought has a layer of slime on the bottom so I will have to go to the scrubbing piles before the RSYC Frostbite 2011


Mike James June 6th 2010