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By Hoopla54

June 3, 2008

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For those of you new to Aurai and for those who are perhaps not so new, a quick overview of how to plan and execute a week-end away with Hoo Ness YC. Some brief background, Aurai is 44 years’ old and only in our second year of ownership, she was owned and kept by a sailor’s sailor before us, for whom we have much admiration, but we have a sneaky feeling they never went to the loo, cooked on the Taylor’s cooker or used the fixed VHF and decided to sell when they got fed up with the engine leaking fuel everywhere? The listed shore power connection was a dubious non-marine fitting and actually did not run beyond a bit of a taped up wire end. The battery charger was fitted but not connected, though the sails and rigging are perfection and well set up. Built very well, everything else about her hull and fittings is in excellent order! Most of the above was discovered last season and over the season and last winter rectified, so that when put back in the water this year we were determined to have a few proving sails in time for the Ramsgate w/e and be all set. Ramsgate is about 45 Nm from Hoo on the River Medway and the trip takes in a rounding of the North Foreland, which can be lumpy when flat calm everywhere else!

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