This is her sail plan. I was told by a friend of the builder that she sailed better with her original suit of red sails, but someone had cut off the top panels so I rigged her with the green sails to take her round to Kent. Once we were finally in the boatyard in the Med I bought some sail cloth and refitted the top panels as per Blondie Hassler's book on junk rigs.
Luckily I was working in a scenery shop and we had just fitted a new, painted timber floor so I was able to peg out the sails and sew on the new panels.
Like all long keel boats she tacks slowly, but I attached port and starboard preventers to the headsail boom and was able to run them back to the cockpit via the steel stanchions. These allow me to back the headsail for tacking and she'll tack in less than 1.5 knots.
The cockpit sole and lockers are fully waterproof as are the lazarette covers. There are two, three inch cockpit drains that run to the transom. I used the last of the sail cloth to make a cover for the companionway for when we have leave the boat. A sixty litre fuel tank sits amidships behind the lazarette.
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I modified the windlass with a roller mounted above the chain to stop it bouncing up and a nylon coated ramp to feed the chain into the locker.
I originally mounted the outboard on the push pit next to the radar, but I soon discovered that when going about the fall of the main sheet would tangle itself in anything at the back of the boat so I got rid of the radar as unnecessary and moved the outboard to the pushpit with the dinghy anchor.
There are sail covers for both sails.