Are you brave enough to have a go?

The flexing of spring’s muscles calls for a dusting down of my jobs list.

- PETE GOSS

I never intend winter boat maintenance to become last minute but a busy life creates a bow wave of tasks that end up clamouring for last-minute attention.

As ever, booking the launch date has triggered a succession of dominoes that should see us off on our first and long-awaited weekend on board. The list of jobs is pretty easy this year – engine service, tidying behind the switch panel, anodes and antifouling.

The only priority is that we need to sort out the prop anode which is too active on the fizzing front. We shall put a meter across the coupling and my hope is that a copper strip will suffice. If that doesn’t work we are exploring a system which puts brushes on the shaft.

With such a small job list you wouldn’t expect