Month: April 2019
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Making progress everywhere
Well, the hot cylinder is moving to under the boiler, the boiler is coming off of the current wall and moving on to the wall next to it (90 degree turn), all the piping and motorised valves have to move, the bathroom for bedroom 3 is covered in tile backer board (insulated, concrete).. something has…
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Snubbers and rubbers
One of the slightly irritating things about Blue Opal is that she’s fairly heavy, and when on a pontoon, her weight plus windage plus mooring warps can equate to “squeak, creak, jerk”. It also equates to her teak toerail caps being worn down by the ropes as the rub. A bit of searching, and I…
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Raspberry Pis are everywhere
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Rendering walls, examining showers
Pretty much all of the bonding on walls has now been removed in the house, and sand/cement render has taken its place. The piping in the closet (to the cylinder) is looking a bit out of place at the moment, and the builder is suggesting “hey, what if we move the cylinder?” – to be…
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More teak work
I found an old bottle of teak oil when I packed up my apartment, so today saw a test application after washing half of the cockpit teak with ecomarine teak cleaner. Also went out for a sail today; forecast was for the wind to fill in around noon, which it duly did. Itโs more than…
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Pano-dawn
Woke up to this dawn, and was quite happy with it. Decided to try cleaning the teak in the cockpit, so the starboard side is now done, and once dry I can compare with the port side to see the difference (and then clean the port side).