Month: June 2019
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Early departure
Dad flew back this morning, which meant being up around 4 AM to get him to the bus stop in Dun Laoghaire for his 05:10 bus. I booked in to the marina for the night, because it cut the walk in half (when towing 18 kg of luggage, this matters, since the distance from the…
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Replacing the head sanitary hose โ part 3
Sunday dawned. The forecast said there would be rain in the afternoon, and the tide wouldn’t be right until about lunch time to be alongside for power (to do a different job where we needed to run the multi-tool). Today was to be the day we made sure the seacock would close fully, the old…
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Replacing the head sanitary hose – part 2
With the efforts of Friday, we had got the head out, and the top panel and “pillar” portion of the steel holding tank surround. Onwards to getting the rest of it out! Along the way, we did some GPS wiring while thinking about how to take things to pieces – we wanted to be alongside…
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Replacing the head sanitary hose – part 1
Blue Opal’s head has had a bit of a pong since I got her, even with lots and lots of water flushed through (and Jabsco “Toilet Fresh Clean”.. actually, I think that smelled worse than the head itself; sickly sweet). The manual Whale V pump has also been annoying me, because it was installed about…
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Things that go “bang” in the day
I was peacefully minding my own business on Blue Opal this afternoon, after work, when I heard a rattling of sails and some yelling. A mast came past my saloon window, and then there was a very loud bang from up forward. I dashed up on deck to see a 1720 from one of the…
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RIP GPS mushroom
The GPS on Blue Opal has been failing recently, claiming that it can’t get a fix. The common answer in the forums is that the battery has died, and should be replaced – spot welding the tabs will be the hard bit, but doable. So, I took mine off the railing, and discovered that it…
