Toni and I will be at the 2025 Annapolis Fall Sailboat Show on Thursday and Friday, October 9-10. If you see us, say Hi. 2025 has been a year of change for our Seawind 1260, “Moments in Time”. After sailing her as delivered for a season, we had a list of improvements that we wanted to get check off the list. This is one of the last ones. We originally swore we would never close in the cockpit as that was one of our favorite features. We spend more time relaxing in the cockpit than our saloon. But certain beautiful anchorages along Chesapeake’s eastern shore are forbidden certain times of the year due to vicious swarms of bugs. Screening in the cockpit now opens these anchorages back up. The visibility looking out from the cockpit is excellent so we can still enjoy our views but the visibility from the outside looking in is muted, providing some privacy. We can the screens up while sailing, or remove them for storage. We also had blackouts made for the saloon windows in the same pattern as the “Screens Saloon Shade Clip On” 1260 option which only blocked 40 percent of the sunshine. 40 percent is not enough when at a marina or trying to run the air conditioner on hot sunny days. The saloon glass can get so hot you can barely touch it and would radiate the heat. These new shades block 95 percent of the heat, allows light in, provides privacy, and the beige color really knocks down the inside temperatures. Downside is that they must be removed while underway. And since they had the sewing machine and material out, we had some winch covers made as well. Another checkmark closer to releasing the lines. Subscribe and share in the adventure! Become part of the conversation by liking https://www.facebook.com/SV.MomentsInTime/ Feel free to comment and let us know your thoughts.

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In the second of our #HowTo tutorials for new visitors to T2S, resident skipper Dan demonstrates how to step on and off a boat.

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https://www.scanboat.com/en/boat-market/boats/sailingboat-first-beneteau-42-17539654 Sailingboat - Både sælges, First Beneteau 42, 1982 EUR 35.000 Scanboat 1982 Beneteau First 42 SY Serenity (ex Holy Mackerel) INVENTORY Equipment Plastimo compass Aries windvane Air Breeze wind turbine 2 170cm by 115cm Solar panels -405w per panel 2 MPPT Solar charge controllers, 600Ah LiFePo4 battery with 2 BMS 2 90Ah starting lead acid batteries Manuel pump Emergency tiller 2 Spinnaker poles Mooring warps and fenders Main sail Genoa Spinnaker in snubber Storm jib Hanked on working jib Harken main traveller and winches 25 kilo ROCNA anchor with 60m chain - new, Anchor windlass Electric water pump (pressure system) 350l in 2 tanks Electric bilge...

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Un break a casa, a Cala Gonone, di pochi giorni; ma non si smette di pensare e lavorare per Solo Round the Globe Record. Il giro del mondo in solitario su #class40 che partirà ad ottobre da Cagliari.

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Some discussion on forms that the TillerClutch may interfere with using the tiller by not allowing full port-to-starboard movement. This video shows that this isn't the case.

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