A nice day on the harbour

Enjoying the nice winter sunny day, temp about 20, light breeze, perfect.
The bit of the boom you see here is off the aft mast, called the "Mizzen".

I went out yesterday on Rona, a beautiful wooden Ketch built in 1895 ("Ketch" = boat with two masts, the aft one shorter than the forward one.  If the aft mast is the taller, then it's a Schooner...).
She was berthed next to Xena, and when I was there on Tuesday, Gilvin, Rona's "boat boy" (as they're called here; don't get upset...) asked me if I'd like to come out for a sail yesterday as they were going to test the new repairs to the main mast.  Gilvin was a guy we'd tried to get a visa to work for us on Xena, but we'd been unable to get visa for him -- cause we went about it the wrong way it turns out, whereas the owners of Rona went about it the right way (details way too boring to get into here....).
There are more photos of yesterday over at the Xena blog, here.
BTW: if you want to download this, it's better at the Xena Blog site, as it's a higher resolution there...