LaGecko Sailing

05/06/2024 So after a 2-month ordeal in getting our fuel injection pump serviced and back on the engine, we have left the dock. We spent several hours just running the motor through its paces, making sure that it’s behaving itself, running between 1500 and 3000 RPM motoring around Northwest bay. We ended up anchoring in…

Over the last few months we have been getting a bit of Diesel fuel under our engine, it started with a little and got to be a lot more than I was comfortable with. So I talked with Ian Hughes the local Volvo mechanic to get it removed and serviced but he couldn’t look at…

Yesterday afternoon we had our first serious injury, we have had countless stubbed toes and bumped heads, elbows and knees from us not moving carefully enough. But this is the first time the failure of a piece of equipment has caused us injury. The injury occurred as I was moving the mizzen boom to its…

Well today was a great day, the rigging is back on LaGecko and she’s a ketch again

With the New year’s celebration over and done with, we threw the lines and escaped to Eggs and Bacon bay for a few days away. The trip west past Arch rock and Huon island was very rolly and anchoring in the protected bay was lovely

Straight after Christmas day we motored down to Rabbit island at Dover for a few nights. We finally got around to blowing up my Advanced Elements AirVolution kayak, this is a drop stitch kayak and is a very rigid build, and is great to paddle around, I’m very happy with it.

For our last boat Christmas day in Tasmania, we had mum, Sharon, Phil, Simone and Holly down for lunch. It was a beautiful day and it was great to have everyone around together.

The masts were painted yesterday, the guys sanded them, cleaned them and built a tent around them to minimise dust and over spray After painting they are now awaiting the hardening of the paint

Christmas break is approaching and the masts are not going to be painted in time for us to start reassembling them, so we are returning to our home at Kettering mastless. My brother-in-law Phil came along with us to have a trip on the boat and he spent a lot of time at the helm.…

A 80 tonne crane turned up today to remove our masts for the re-rigging. They started by lifting a powerboat into the water, then we tied up alongside and our masts were removed Masts removed After that a 51 foot race boat tied up alongside us to have their carbon fibre rig removed for repairs,…