It was a pretty productive week: the
weather was mild and I took care of a couple of items on the list.
I finished converting the nav lights to LEDs and chainplates for
securing the Jordan Series Drogue to the transom were installed. The chainplates are massive, but
they each need to be able to handle peak loads of up to 14,000
pounds! They are so big and so well secured that the only way for
the system to fail would be to tear the boat in half. Not likely
since the Salar is such a tank! I also got some answers to an
officialdom problem: Circadian, although documented, does not have a
hull identification number (HIN). That could be a serious problem in
Mexico. After quite a bit of research, some false starts and a trip
to the DMV, I finally got some answers from the USCG Vessel
Documentation Center. It seems I just need to make up an HIN that
meets the legal guidelines and submit a form 1258 with a check.
Hopefully I'll get to that next week.
I spent the weekend
in LA with Carol and we did a nice hike up to the Griffith
Observatory.
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