Best news this afternoon, Bruno's man re-jigged the derailier. As you see it now has four chain guides and an extra turn in the spring - it should be bomb proof for Biscay and beyond. For all you engineeringphobes, the thingy above is now as tough as a brick s***house and we're off to Spain tomorrow OLE!
Turns out he was "just zee man for the job"!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely Joe, though the chain jumped off the smaller of the cogs en route to Portosin. We now know how to fix it and will get some guards made for the cogs as well - sssk simple. Life is much easier with the auto helm as you will imagine, we were in gale conditions at the time, coming round Cap Finistere , Spanish Finistere. Now tucked up in a small fishing harbour and a very small but nice Marina waiting to catch our breaths before heading south to Bayona next, whenever. Hope all is well with you. xx
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