We made good progress yesterday. I paid off the guys for the work done on the genset. While out and about I visited the upholsterer. Our new (and much more comfortable) helm seat base was ready as was our new table cloth. Back on the boat I fitted the helm seat. As it was approaching high tide I was able to load up our chain and take it up the not so steep ramp and take it off to the second hand store and turn it into wine vouchers.
We finished the morning replacing all the halogen bulbs in the starboard hull with LED replacements we’ve had for some time. I also had an extra, extra bright LED replacement for Helen’s reading light. Unfortunately it didn’t fit to well so I started soldering a different pin arrangement into it so it would fit.
By now it was already late morning. We were visited by Malcolm who we’d met and wined with when we were down in Christchurch. He’s staying in the north island and we’d given him an invite to see us on the boat. We ate lunch aboard followed by a visit to the nearby clock museum which was quite interesting.
After saying goodbye to Malcolm I finished off the work on Helen’s replacement light which ended up working fine. We then set upon the rear locker which we cleared out, cleaned then laid our shorter piece of new chain into the base. We oiled up a load of rusty cans and threw away a few things we felt we’d never need. After tidying that all away the back of the boat looks a lot tidier.
The weather today looks ok for our haulout so hopefully we’ll be on the land by this afternoon. The weather ahead is not so good. Oh well.
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