pandemonium GBR 2212L

sponsorship

2011-01-02T12:00:00.000-08:00

i have come to the decision that i want to do a proper race camaign in pandemonium , but to do this i am looking for a company to sponsor me to help me achieve this goal please comment for any ideas

Racing#2

2010-12-31T06:42:00.000-08:00

Hello , sorry for not posting for a while,

As said before I was intending to race pandemonium
In the Felixstowe regatta 2010 non IRC class , the first day
consisted of no wind and a rather large course to start with
Then a shorter one to finish :) that day we came out with
A 2nd , the second day had quite alot more wind and many waves
And a massive 8 and a half knots :)

So that's the racing done and lots more to come :)

Pandemonium out !

racing

2010-06-25T04:44:00.000-07:00

i have decided to race pandemonium in the non IRC class at felixstowe regatta 2010 . if this all goes well haven series 2011 but will keep you posted

berth

2010-06-25T04:43:00.000-07:00

pandemonium is in a proper berth in the marina now !! makes life so much easier!!

appologies

2010-06-15T10:43:00.000-07:00

hi everyone , i very sorry that there hasnt been much news lately but i have had exams ect. to deal with but . the news for pandemonium is that she will be going into her berth this friday the 18th and be doing lots of sailing from then on , i am also hoping to do the felixstowe regatta cruiser class in her just for a bit of fun :)but dont know if she is eligable.

more as it happens

berth

2010-05-25T04:43:00.001-07:00

as from june 2010 pandemonium will have a marina berth this will make life easier for evening sailing after work

bone dry

2010-05-25T04:42:00.000-07:00

i went out on saturday evening to check on dear old pandemonium and to my suprize she was completley dry and there was no water anywere inside !!! im soo happy :)

first solo mission !!!!

2010-04-25T11:31:00.000-07:00

Friday the 23rd of april i launched pandemonium once again !! but on Saturday the 24th of april 2010 . pandemonium and i embarked on my first every solo voyage !! i was a lengthy 5 and a half hours. we set off at about half past nine , quarter to ten and thought i would do everything very slowly and gently but when i got out there i had to get the sails up straight away and turn the outboard off because i was so exited (and a little nervous) to get going. i started with full main and no.2 jib as it was only slightly overlapping so i could get used to tacking upwind . there was a steady breeze and the sun was beginning to shine and everything felt a little warmer :P i was tacking upwind happily until i got closer to felixstowe docks at this point i decided to do a headsail change !! i was quite impressed i managed to do it and not drift in to the bank or hit anything !! go me !! after this we were flying . as i entered the docks the was an Oceanis 310 alongside sailing in the same direction as me ... the race was on ! we were tacking upwind (the oceanis completely oblivious that we were racing) and by the time we go to harwich shelf i was leading , by quite a long way at this point i felt quite at home on my boat. but in all previous crewed voyages we hadn't ventured past fagbury which is at the start of the docks . i was determined to make it to a significant navigational mark .. so i decided to go to languard i was now properly at sea once i got there i took a picture on my phone for proof that i made it there (unfortunately i cant get it on to the computer)but once i got there it was a lovely day and i didnt want to go in yet so i had a quick scan left and right .. on my left a massive ship on it way to felixstowe out to my right i spyed a red and white striped buoy .. this was pye-end .. this was to be today's voyage (Sunday) but i thought why not go now . at this point i had rigged my spinnaker and really wanted to launch it so i plucked up some courage and pulled on the halyard and sheeted in .. and the it was i had launched and was sailing with my spinnaker on my own !! getting it down hadn't crossed my mind yet but anyway . i decided to put some gybes in . as it an asymmetric cruising chute it was quite easy .. after this i met up with my brother and his friends who were racing . i decided to head back in as it would take me a while ... on the way i met up with my dad and eldest brother and sister , and done some up wind sailing to show them i could do it . on the way back through the docks i put the spinnaker up again and goose winged it to go dead down wind and it worked surprisingly well . i then parked up to end an amazing day !!

winter sailing on pandemonium !!

2010-04-20T16:27:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5mdvdXdl24

the first ever video footage of pandemonium

new look

2010-03-23T05:19:00.001-07:00

i decided to give the blog a new look .. i thought i should mondernize it !

winter

2010-03-22T15:51:00.001-07:00

long time no chat !! sorry i have had alot on my plate . anyway back to the topic in hand ; it is winter , boat jobs time. this is the time when every yachtsman has mixed feelings about , firstly its the winter ,the boat is coming out and there is no more sailing for a couple of months but then it is also the time to repair, re-clean , or refit !!! (Mr B). for me it is a part of all of them. i have to repair a crack i have found in my inner lining of the cabin :( i have to re-clean the whole boat again (this time may involve some polish) and there are som aspects of refitting as well.

i went down on sunday and was very happy about getting on my boat and seeing her again !! i opened her up looked inside i was astonished at what a state i had left her in after the final sail and that had to be changed immediately!!!! and found a great deal of water in the compartment under the companion way which i wasn't surprised about after the great deal of rain we have had recently.

when i was tiding up and waiting for my father to come and give me some guidance i noticed that my port bulkhead was covered in mold and thought this was from the existing deck leak but when i looked at the top of my bulk head u discovered a crack in the inner lining of my cabin , the crack is about 3-4 inches long and has a gap of about 3-5mm between each edge. i immediately went on deck to see if there was anything on the deck but there was nothing and a big sigh of relief from me.

when father arrived he was holding a very big polishing machine ( obviously i couldn't wait to get my hands on it ) and we started to use the polisher to clean the combings and toe-rails. we weren't polishing , we were cleaning with a heavy duty cleaner. i was only able to do one side as there are boats around me and i couldn't physically get to the other sides.

after polishing and after an amazing sail on my fathers first 310 i went back to pandemonium , to do some final tiding of the weekend so it is easier to do a thorough clean of the cabin. i remembered that Paul had given me a spinnaker bag as i didn't have one , obviously it was rather over sized because of the different sizes of spinnakers. but i took it anyway because i thought i could use it for storage. then i realized if i folded all of my sails carefully i could fit them all in the same bag !!!! after that i had loads more room inside.

the final job of the day was removing my old compass and wood mounting. the wood mounting had become rotten and the compass was getting very difficult to see and which later discovered had been put on upside down !!! (not by me) .. this space will be filled with a newer compass which has been very kindly donated by a very good friend.

Winter Sailing

2010-01-30T11:42:00.000-08:00

although it is winter , i am not sure why people aren't sailing in the early new year! i was out on the Orwell today with my brother and there was sunshine and a perfect wind speed ,12-15kts. there was a strong tide running but this didn't stop us proceeding on a foul tide beat because we were just happy being out there. while we were on our little outing we spotted a little sail coming down wind under just jib alone. this jib was white with a blue u.v strip. as we got a little closer i realized that it was another Pandora international which is based at Suffolk yacht harbor as well . but we were going in opposite directions . we were out for about 2hrs just sailing around and we just had the best day ever . . . even though we were blue by the end of it.

the launch

2009-12-28T13:54:00.000-08:00

i arrived at the marina at about 7.30 and was aware the trailer wasn't able to go down the slipway for the boat to be launched by putting the trailer in the water... so i went to find my friend who works there and asked him if would be able to have have the boat lifted into the water. luckily they had to us the crave anyway that day s i was in luck. they said it would be about middy when she would be launched so i made some calls to people to come and see her go in . at 9.30 the work yard staff came to me and said they would launch then so i had to chuck everything on board and get towed to the crane (which wasn't far). i made the same calls but telling them to come down A.S.A.P. by the time it was ready to launch everyone was there apart from my parents. by this time i was very nervous and was wandering if the boat would float!! seeing my boat being lifted above me was a strange feeling. as soon as i was safe get on board i rushed in to check the skin fittings and make sure there was no water entering. i found some salt water in the bilge but i think that was the stuff i had got out fully before she went in so we left her in the water and went for walk to let everything settle. when we came back she ............... was ................ afloat

pandemonium by name pandemonium by nature part 2 !!

2009-12-28T13:35:00.000-08:00

after getting some lunch and driving past on the other side of the road and seeing her in a layby wasn't my happiest moment. dad and i got a call at about 6 o'clock saying there will be lorry at the boat at 9.30 ish ... we got a call at 8.00 saying they will be there in 15 mins .... we live a bit further away from it than that so we were a bit rushed. when we got there we found out that it was the wrong type so we went home on the way home we got a call saying there was another truck that had been ordered but after some research we realized there wasn't one and we had a very long convosation with a man on the phone deciding on what vehicle we needed. we had lots of convosations with lots of different people and all of them saying they didn't have the right vehicle. when we got home we decided to call it a day and get some sleep until we get the next call. it was all night and no call, the boat had been there for over 12 hours now on the side of a busy road. it was coming up to midday and sill no call at 4.00 ish we had a call from a firm who said they had a vehicle that would do it and they said they will ring us when they are 20 mins away ... we got the call and they said they had the boat on the lorry and on the way down to Suffolk yacht harbour so me and mum jumped in he van and headed down to the marina. when we got there the boat was already being unloaded! the boat was now safe at the marina. :) :)

pandemonium by name pandemonium by nature

2009-12-21T07:14:00.000-08:00

we were towing pandemonium down to suffolk yacht harbour (very slowly), the roads were fine just a bit slushy but we gave it a go anyway. the boat and trailer were towing well , every so often a little wobble but they were fine. before starting we were a bit nervous because we haven't had the best of luck when towing her. when dad was bring her home ( i had school) the trailer had a blow out on the back left wheel meaning dad couldn't carry on.... so he called the aa out so he had to wait for them to come with a flat bed trailer, the one they came with we had to which the boat up onto it but as the trailer has an overhang there wasn't enough clearance... so they had to call out a lorry which the flat bed could be lowered right to the ground and then raised. by the time dad got home it was around 02.30am. when we set off we checked everything because we didnt want this to happen again. when we got on the A14 we thought the worst was over, but we couldn't have been more wrong!!!! the same wheel that caused the trouble before had come off . a bolt had sheered and the wheel came flying off (lucky it was a four wheeled trailer) causing the wheel to fly off into the road ... luckily no one was hurt. we called the aa and and they said they would send a similar lorry. at first they said 1hr then it went to 3hrs then 5 hrs so mum , my brother and me decided that we would go and get supplements but when we tried to turn the car on .... the battery had died so we were there and the support vehicle (the car) had ran out of battery so we had to call out our local garage because the aa would take event longer than to get a lorry there. eventually we got the car started and drove off to get lunch and left pandemonium in the layby..

Sail Number

2009-12-15T11:01:00.000-08:00

JUST GOT A NEW SAIL NUMBER !!!!!!!!

GBR 2212L

Chilly

2009-12-15T10:42:00.000-08:00

the boat is going to be launched on Saturday the 19th of December at Suffolk Yacht Harbour. i have decided to stay on board until Christmas eve ( i have a feeling it's going to be cold) I went on board earlier today and she was very icy so i better be careful !!!!

pandemonium

2009-12-13T10:32:00.000-08:00

when i bought pandemonium she was then called "xanadu" and was a very dirty yellow and in not very good condition. i have spent the best part of six months sanding the yellow paint and the wood work on the outside to paint the out side white and stained the woodwork (teak) the rudder i took down to the wood and primed and painted the under water section and varnished the section above the water line. i havent done anything to the inside yet but it will come

pandemonium

2009-12-02T06:38:00.000-08:00

hi guys

pandemonium is a Pandora international, she is 21,10 foot long and will be based on the river Orwell

i bought her as a bit of a project in march and still working on her now!!!

i am hoping to race her in the local club's boxing day and new years day race but at the moment is looking doubtful as we need to get the stantion bases on but this is proving to be difficult, and the racing rules say i cant race without stantion's but i will follow them round anyway even if i don't get placed.