These blog titles are getting a little boring but the muse is not with me on them. Although we were forecast rain, it never materialized (in fact, Whangarei was the hottest place in the country) so progress remained good. We had expected the guy who’s going to look at out shaft seals/couplings to show up but this has been postponed to Tuesday. That shifted the project list around somewhat but didn’t slow us down :
- We collectively made a number of visits to the yard store to return the borrowed glue gun/glue, order a zinc, look for plexiglass paint, borrow/return hydraulic prop puller
- Researched suppliers for perforated vinyl. Found and phoned store in Whangarei. Should visit later this week.
- Visited Bunnings to collect plexiglass. It wasn’t in yet !!!
- Check yard and marina office for packages we were told were there. None found.
- Trace screw holes for missing nacelle scoop in order to find right one. Learned from store they’re difficult and expensive to source in NZ and discovered Leu Cat is looking for one too. May talk to David about this.
- Talked to workmeister, Peter, to pic up our diagrams of where we’d found gelcoat spots in the past. Glad I did as there were some we’d missed on weekend inspection. Also cancelled visit from fridge guy as ours are working ok. Got information on propeller inspector in town.
- Removed both propellers and took them into town for inspection/balancing.
- Bought tickets for April 8th BBQ/lecture by weather guru Bob McDavitt in town.
- Took loop to rigger to make spare and discussed forestay fix. Job is dependent on my replacing / fixing worn halyards.
- Bought and installed davit bolts / washers. Lost one washer down the inside of the davit and had to go back for more. Learned that one pulley is rubbing on davit so new job added to list to file this down.
- Replaced main halyard with one purchased last week. This involved ascending mast to remove pin / switch halyards. The replacement split pins I had were too small so I used one as a temporary replacement – will need to go up again with bigger pin.
- Replaced code zero halyard with old main halyard to see if worn section would be in ok position. It wasn’t. Need a new code zero halyard. (Note – we learned during the rigging inspection that the code zero halyard had been rubbing at the top due to the way we place it while not in use. Bugger.)
- Ordered new code zero halyard and bought bigger split pins.
- Reviewed trademe auction for superfluous camera housing. Auction has been won but no contact from winner.
- Visited dinghy repair store to discuss removal/replacement of broken handle.
- Removed broken dinghy handle from front of dinghy. This was a disastrous mess as handle broke apart and left patchy layer on dinghy. More work ahead on this one.
Other work progressed on the boat throughout the day. Helen continued her fight against progressive dirt accumulation from all sources including a thorough clean of the kitchen metals (taps, hobs, ovens, etc.). Dan was round to progress the work on the anchor roller strengthening and gelcoat touch ups. The guy from the stainless steel outfit was round many times fine tuning the curves on our nacelle protector. It’s looking good. He also dropped off our straightened bow rail which we’ll reattach.
Frank from Tahina was round again to talk to the yard and we had the usual project chat. He’s hauling on Thursday. We’d originally thought we’d be splashed by then but I’m pretty sure we won’t now.
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