First race, first win

Yesterday we participated to our first ADCA race and finished first in about 14Kts of wind from North West.  We had a great spinnaker run, on board all is running smooth.

Rudder bearings JP3

Mathieu brought to Abu Dhabi the JP3 bearings from France and got them installed.  Bandit is working on the rudder stock head molding process.  The rudder is at last fitted, soon ready to launch.

keel, mast...

 Nicolas did a fantastique job of the mast head with the new hailyard system from Karver, this is should make main hoisting simpler.  New cables have been fitted for the nav lights, VHF and BandG wind instruments.

 Here is the keel base plate, the bolts are torqued to 1600 Nm.

 The hull is placed on the keel using AM Shipyard travelift.  The bulb rested simply on the ground. 4 cartridges of 3M 4200 were used to watertight the keel base plate.

 IdeesfixVIII is repositioned using a crane to temporary storage location.

 The mast is turned into it's rigging position.

 Nicolas and Nicolas fit the mast.

Ideesfix back into one piece.  Missing is rudder, we are waiting for the bearings from JP3.

Red

The winches get serviced.

The mast base plate been machine, the old one suffered from electrolysis corrosion between the aluminum and carbon. Aluminum, carbon and salt water are a very bad mix, lots of parts have been damaged.

Winch pedestals and bowsprit painted red.