The day began with us doing a wash. Because of the recent humidity we closed the hatches and turned on all the A/Cs to condense some of the moisture out of the air and in turn out of our belongings. It was a nice hour.
I had noticed the internet service had been failing and recovering all morning. I went ashore to find out if they were having general problems. They’d been having to turn their main modem/hub off and on all morning. I felt bad as chances are it was related to my prior days efforts. I asked them to cycle the power one more time but this time to turn off the three wireless hubs too. That all being done I went to get my laptop and watch things for a while nearby. Everything stayed up fine and there were no further issues.
In the afternoon, having no further excuses to avoid boat chores, I set about fixing our forward hatch. One of our vertical hatches had been bent during charter and CatCo had refused to do anything about it even to the point of ignoring requests for the appropriate replacement part. While I thought it was possible to bend it back in shape it was not certain I could do this without causing extra harm. Also, some of the plastic fittings had been damaged so in case any bending broke the window I had bought a replacement nearly a year ago and now it was time to set about doing the work.
I soon realized the replacement had the wrong colour surround and wrong colour tint to the glass. Not overly noticeable but annoying all the same. I managed to switch the hatch covers over easily enough. The next part was to see if the original hatch could be straightened. With John’s help I tried standing on it to straighten it out. This didn’t work. I then went ashore to a local metal workers who asked me to come back an hour later.
An hour later we all went ashore to shower, pick up pizza and sort out the hatch. With blocks of wood and g-clamps we were able to bring the hatch back to a respectable shape. The charge for the services was more than respectable too. Now all I need to do is figure out how to transfer the fittings and put the original hatch back.
The pizza we had ordered turned out to be quite delicious. We ate this in the club house while chatting to a couple there.
Back on the boat we met up with Richard and Christy from Lilith for drinks and chats.
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