maintenance

Today was the last day of the long weekend, gloriously sunny, and I was still tethered to the land by my job. However, this didn’t stop me from bringing Blue Opal alongside for some more maintenance work. First up was

The existing danbuoy on Blue Opal is well past its prime. The plastic cap is brittle, the rope looks like it’s suffered from sun exposure, and the buoyancy disk is dead, for lack of a better word. While in Viking

Spent today alongside, as I’m tethered to my phone and laptop (the joys of being on-call for a technology company). First job was to reduce the starting amount of furling line on the drum for the yankee. This was the

The sea-cock under the head, the one used for the outlet, is pretty darn stiff. This was noted on the survey, and the prior owner indicated that they had addressed this issue (I assume by putting grease up the hole

Went down to the club today, and out to Blue Opal, with a few goals in mind: document her data network, get the lift pump for the Webasto to prime, put a screw in next to the radio to stop

Part of today was spent investigating the boat data network to find out what went where, and then draw a pretty picture. As the photos show, I was mostly successful – there’s a single SeaTalk1 cable in the helm console