Is it a bird? Is it a plane? ...

Nup, it's Sacha. There he was perched high on the rigging like an ungainly over sized albatross, biggest bloody bird i'd ever seen.

So last Friday we'd decide a little bit of maintenance was overdue, we did a bit of cleaning up and made the boat ship-shape (rrrr - me 'arty's) and then it was onto the main event, putting up the wind direction thing-a-majiggy. Deciding I didn't like harnesses and ropes I volunteered sacha to go up, he accepted and next thing I know I'm looking up at a bloody big bird and hoping it's not going to shit on me.

Things we discovered:

1. Even though we have winches, it's hard to lug 80 or so kgs up there
2. We have the biggest mast in the bay (that's what I'm taking about ladies ;) )
3. The view's pretty good from up the top
4. Ships tend to rock, even in a bay, should be interesting the first time we have to do that in a storm

See a couple of pics below of sachmo doing his thing.