It was a busy week, but a lot was accomplished. Bruce, a master mechanic who was once a
service manager for a Rolls Royce dealer and has been a marine mechanic for the
last 15 years or so, helped me diagnose my alternator issues. (He wouldn’t accept any payment, so I twisted
his arm until he agreed to let me buy him a beer at our local hangout.) The
alternator is fine, it’s an instrumentation issue. I cleaned up the main ground connections on
the engine which seemed to help. I need
to replace an idiot light bulb too. No
big deal. Whew! Hector came by to trial fit a new scoop/bug
screen for the forward hatch and delivered the carpet pieces for the aft cabin
to which he had added some matching edge trim.
I did some work too.
I finished the restoration of my outrigger paddle in time for a race on
Saturday, glued down the carpet in the aft cabin, finished sanding the teak in
the cockpit/doghouse and applied some penetrating epoxy and a bit of Cetol,
finished and mounted the pinrail on the shelf fiddles in the aft cabin, and
completed the cockpit table with the addition of a modified mount I found in a
used marine gear store. If that isn’t
enough, I spent a day taking photographs of a group of pianists for a client of
Carol’s. Been paddling a lot too. And yes, I’m tired!
