Around La Cruz de Huanacaxtle
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Can't let a little rain stop you from setting up your
mobile restaurant in the middle of a street corner.
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| Some folks like living, or at least parking, on the edge. |
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| Sailboat on the horizon |
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| Low tide on the beach by the marina |
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| Beach sunset |
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| Sunrise from Circadian |
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| Looking southeast, it's actually a sunset! |
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| Sunset at low tide |
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| Damned grackles ain't got no couth! |
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Could be worse. Look closely and you will see
there are HUNDREDS of white-collared
seed-eaters on these wires.
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Boat Work
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Starting in on the new autopilot installation.
Always unnerving to cut big holes in the boat.
Measure three times; cut once?
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| Gulp! Here goes..... |
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Nice, clean cut-out for the new Simrad autopilot
display and control.
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| Perfect fit |
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| Protective cover on |
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Rebuilt base painted and ready for remounting the
hydraulic steering cylinder.
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In order to make absolutely sure I didn't go through the
bottom of the hull, I used screws of different lengths
and carefully marked the drill bits to accommodate
the amount of clearance.
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| Base remounted |
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Notice the rudder stop crossmember has been removed
to make installation easier.
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| Hydraulic cylinder remounted. |
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| Hoses connected, rudder stop crossmember re-installed. |
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New Simrad autopilot motor/pump mounted
and hoses connected.
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Now the messy part: filling the system with
hydraulic fluid and then bleeding the air
out of it. This is the set-up I devised
last time I had to bleed the system. It
worked well, with minimum mess.
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Some oil spillage is inevitable when bleeding
the system, so I prepared for it with oil-
absorbent pads. After MANY repeated
turns of the wheel and some help from Tod,
we got it done. It was good to at least have
manual steering back.
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