Tag: Blue Opal
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Re-sealing the mast, tracing a pipe
The tape that sealed the gaiter to the mast had fallen off, so that needed to be addressed before Blue Opal sank from rain water accumulation. Easy enough, self-amalgamating tape and a lot of tension. One of the jobs to do in June is change the sanitation pipe for the head, fit a new pump…
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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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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).
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Engine maintenance – new filter
Blue Opal has been emitting white-blueish smoke at high revs, which is a new development. The oil level is about 3/4 on the dipstick, so she’s not over-full on oil. I figured it was a good time to change the fuel filter, as the last change was when I bought her. The filter came off…
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A morning visitor