Prologue in video
Season for me, was mostly filled with all kind of boat fixing. Some one may think that it is a pity or sad, some does think it was not. For me, this was a deliberate act, because season start late and all planned work had to be done.
First i was testing the engine, and i found it did start and run nice. There was no problem to start even it was standing almost a month after last starting. Engine battery was also full, thank you for sun panel.
All preparations in the afternoon took only few hours. My friend Tuomas was coming to help me with driving the boat to the dock, where we was going to lift the boat up. As we remember, i had no remote control to the engine, so i had to be inside and drive engine.
Vire 12 is a quite powerful engine. With 12Hp, Vire did move my 3500kg boat nice and with good acceleration. Engine is not lazy like diesel engine, i like the temper, the power.
Driving to the Shiplift was interesting for us. Tuomas held the helm and i was driving engine. Feeling was something like old school way to do motorsailing. Engine indeed has temper and with just a small moves the engine answer to your need of speed. Engine is great. Vire12.
We drive to the pier and start to clean the deck and preparing boat for lifting up and drive her to winter yard.
We got more people to help with lifting and getting boat ready. We took mast off after loosing rigging and cables
Wooden mast is not very heavy, but it is a quite flexible. It is easy to lift, when you know what you are doing. 3 man is better than 2 man during operation.
Some more ropes and control during the lift and all was going nice and smooth
After we had move mast to place to wait for transporting, we had to start to work with the real issue. Lifting the boat from the sea and drive it to place where she was going to spend winter season.
Transporting to winter yard
Lifting boat from water to dry, is always interesting and risky job. If something goes wrong, it is best to have a company, who is registered and having insurance for this kind of work. The company, i used ; Oy Rasmus Nordström Ab, was doing great work. Thank you. Our boats are very dear for us, so this is very important to avoid unnecessary risks.
I had decided to lift my boat in good time before autumn, because she had to get dry from bilge before winter.
Before lifting and transporting, we had to get Stand for boat from other yard to new place and secure the place for the boat.
We had opportunity to get small caterpillar (bob cat) to clear the ground for my boat stand. This was taking more than a hour, and it was dark before we where done. Thank you, nice job !
After we lifted the boat from water, and tied it up with ropes, we went to road trip. Transport to winter yard took about hour and half. She hold that transporting without any scars or harms and was lifted to her place to wait for season repairs and cleanings.
Sailing West wind 