October 10, 2011

I've continued working hard on house and boat, but it's been a good week with some small and some large victories.  With less than two weeks to move, I'm running out of time, so this blog will be a bit different.  I just don't have time to do much writing, so I'm going to let the pictures tell most of the story.  PLEASE, let me know if like this style better or worse.

The house made it through the FHA appraisal CLEAN; no more to-do's!  My realtor said she'd never seen a clean FHA appraisal before.  The hard work paid off, but I also had an easy-going appraiser, which was pure luck.

For Circadian, I did a bunch of work in the shop and onboard to make her more sailable and more livable
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I finished rigging the secondary anchor, although I still expect stowage arrangements to evolve.

It was hard to find a replacement oil lamp chimney for my restored trawler lamp (the original was a casualty of the move cross-country), but I finally found one on ebay.  I carefully measured the base diameter, but naively neglected to measure the height needed, thinking the lamp had plenty of clearance.  Of course the chimney was too tall.  I decided to try cutting it down using a cheap glass cutter.  At a tenth the cost of another chimney, it was worth the risk.

 

I finally got to making a cover for the instrument wiring using the same method I used for the ceiling panel that I installed back in June.

Completing the new engine mount transom for the dinghy was a major undertaking.  I also needed to get the CF numbers and registration decals on so I could test the engine.  It all happened, but the outboard still has some issues.  It ran fine slow, but when given any throttle, it ran great for 20 or 30 seconds and slowed back down.  I think there's an obstruction in the fuel filter or line.  No time to test this week.  I also discovered that the fuel tank I had been so clever in repairing and modifying interferes with the motor tiller when making sharp turns.  Sigh.

 

Last, but not least, I finally removed the household drain from the shower sump so I can replace it with something that I can plumb properly.  Heck, it's only been waiting on the back burner since April!

My early morning drive out to the delta was through some thin and patchy fog, making for some nice light as the sun rose and burned it off.