A lot of sanding...

Having nudged the Varvassi wreck as we rounded the Needles, west end of the UK's Isle of Wight, we thought we'd better get Cracker out to see if we'd done any damage. Phew! A glancing blow only had scrapped the side of the several tons of leaf at the end of our 9' keel, but nothing had moved. So had a very pleasant Saturday filling and sanding and keel is now even faster than before.

It's curious how relaxing hard manual work can be. And how satisfying looking at the result. Interestingly, Unskilled Manual and Skilled Manual jobs are surving well, as are Skilled Clerical. But unskilled clerical jobs are the ones that have vanished - sadly the school curriculum forces children to become really good at this now useless unskilled clerical work: copying, taking dictation...

Clearly the curriculum should have more sailing in it!