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Well normally mister fix it need a wrench and a hammer, or maybe one tool that he uses for both….it looks like a crescent wrench but I think he calls it a crescent hammer….
Look at the forehead jutting out, the dull look in the eyes and you will just know it’s going to be another fix the mechanical day…but not today!
Well it’s blue, and like he actually got the color right so my top and bottom match, and he sprang for the good stuff too! Sunbrella….like in yards and yards…….well I am a big girl and there is a lot up top to cover. He made it himself! Which considering the possibility was not on MY list of ways to get it done, but maybe he just has the sewing stuff down…….
So maybe soon I can get a day out, and if he trims it up anymore on the sides the big boy Sea Ray in the next slip may be discharging overboard a bit early if ya get the meaning…..
Back in the water and home, with good friends around flags flying, the captain guy even gave me a nice bath. Juiced up with new batteries and flags flying, ready to go…..
Wednesday ends and Thursday begins early getting work done as early as possible, then lunch with the boss and off again to the boat. The boat was a mess after the yard, it’s always like that. Sand everywhere from the yard, and everything piled high. You have to get into the tight little corners to get most of the work done and that seems to be where I store spare parts and equipment. So everything gets pulled out and piled on any surface, the work gets done and the parts get sorted, inventoried and put back away. I hate to think of the stuff at home that still has to be brought back down to the boat.
Thursday is a plumbing day, hooking up valve to hoses and making water systems come back to life. The day ends with two working heads, and a check showing no leaks on any of the hull valves that I just replaced! The reward is being able to have “a” beer and then sleeping the sleep of the just, onboard the boat.
Friday starts with a work morning, I mean a real job work morning, getting the stuff from the day before done. Finally back to boat work at two…….
Just because the yard period is over does not mean the work is done. The boat has to be scrubbed inside and out, and many systems are still OOC (Out of Commission) or reduced because all the new parts are not connected or tested yet. Sails still have to be checked, stitched and hung, and all systems tested and verified working. The new speed sensor for the Ray marine, and the new Ray marine fathometer transducer have to be hooked up. two of the three heads have been plumbed into the new sea valves. One more head has to be done. The auto helm system is going be refurbished or replaced.
Yesterday was the forward cabin and the main saloon. Both now are almost back to shape, not quite ready to go to sea but closer. I have 2 hours of cleaning and scrubbing in each of the aft stateroom and they will be cleaned for the summer. I have maybe 2 more hours in each of the aft stateroom and they will be ready for sea.
Hey look….Humans……and warm weather…….and oooohhhh yea…a battery charge…..that feels so, so , so …energizing!
Maybe it would be warmer if Mr. I’M THE CAPTAIN guy, could actually put thru-hulls and valve back in those drafty holes I have in my hull.
Ariosa
Well here I sit, it’s winter and I am normally left alone at this time of year. It’s not bad sitting beside the pier, kinda quiet with the water lapping my sides. None of those pesky birds $%!&!#@ all over me like in the summer. I was all ready to enjoy a nice winter.
BUT NO…….MR. I’M THE CAPTAIN has to sit my Keel up on the hard….and I don’t care what he says, my shaft seal was just as tight as the day I first saw water. I was not drbbling, and those hull valves were fine. He thinks I need new ones just because they were ten years old. What’s he think this is a sub safe program…….
I think the Captain needs to move on….
Signed
The Boat
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