The threatened variable weather varied from the forecast by staying steadily pleasant all day long. We got back into full swing :<\/p>\n

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• I removed more of the batteries from under the starboard aft bunk to allow access to the shaft.<\/li>\n
• With the area now fully accessible and with Helen’s help we fished through the wire that will control the wind gen cut off relay.<\/li>\n
• Russ, the chap replacing our shaft seals\/couplings arrived to work on starboard shaft.<\/li>\n
• I went into town to drop off the plexiglass panels to be overlayed with perforated and printed vinyl.\u00a0 While out I picked up an extra couple of items for ditch bag.<\/li>\n
• Helen spent most of the day carefully masking off the four windows and applying 2 coats of paint.\u00a0 One more coat required.<\/li>\n
• Once Russ had left I reinstalled three batteries bringing us up to 8 6V batteries (rather than our normal 12).\u00a0 Allows us to run power tools, etc. with ease off the batteries and avoid excessive electrolysis due to solar charging.<\/li>\n
• Installed new bridle<\/li>\n
• Reattached straightened starboard bow rail, reattached and tightened safety lines.\u00a0 All look much neater now.<\/li>\n
• Installed new fuse holder\/fuse<\/li>\n
• Removed (again) port davit pulleys and filed down stainless steel to allow free turning.\u00a0 Lost another spacer\/washer down davit.\u00a0 Could not fine spare.<\/li>\n
• Completed running the control wire for the wind gen cut off.\u00a0 Found it 1 meter to short.\u00a0 Cursed myself for cutting 1 meter off it for something else last week (I thought I had more than enough).<\/li>\n
• Went to chandlers to buy replacement washer for davit and extra wire.<\/li>\n
• Fixed missing meter of control wire, connected to previously installed switch and tested – it all worked.\u00a0 Yay.\u00a0 No more climbing out onto the back of the boat mid-ocean before and after using the sideband radio.<\/li>\n
• Organized pickup of dinghy in order to have new handle and rollock glued on.<\/li>\n
• Replaced some bent cotter rings.<\/li>\n
• Removed both prop shafts scraping crud off previously inaccessible sections.<\/li>\n
• Thoroughly cleaned both shafts and prop nuts with hydrochloric acid.<\/li>\n
• Prepared some mail for the US.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  Other progress has been made by our various workers.\u00a0 The build up and strengthening around the anchor roller is now close to completion.\u00a0 The gooseneck is fixed and has been returned.\u00a0 Gelcoat work is now fully finished.\u00a0 We were shown how to sand the remaining pieces down which we’ll do when we please.\u00a0 The preliminary work on our rudder bearings is complete. Work progresses on the improvements to our chain locker.<\/p>\n

  There’s a definite sense that we’re over the top of the hill on the boat work and that it is more downhill from here.\u00a0 Talk has begun of our hull clean and bottom painting happening early next week after which we’ll splash.\u00a0 Exciting stuff. The big unknown right now is the timing for our replacement shaft seals.<\/p>\n

  We used the BBQ last night and met up with a few of the others here.\u00a0 This included Petr and Kiki on Endless who shouldn’t have been there.\u00a0 They’d splashed that day but had to be hauled back out due to problems controlling the engines.\u00a0 Turns out a control cable had been damaged during work to their boat.\u00a0 It’s sorted out now and hopefully they’ll be off today.\u00a0 It reminds me how important the pre splash checks will be to make sure all is in order before and after the splash.\u00a0 We’ll be going into the water with all the floors and beds apart so I can inspect all the through hulls and shaft seals to ensure none of the work we’ve done has led to any issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The threatened variable weather varied from the forecast by staying steadily pleasant all day long. We got back into full swing :<\/p>\n

  I removed more of the batteries from under the starboard aft bunk to allow access to the shaft. With the area now fully accessible and with Helen’s help we fished through the wire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-endless","category-new-zealand","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4391,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/4391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}