On a sad note, Carol had to make an emergency trip back to Des Moines, Iowa to join the rest of her family at her ailing mother's bedside. It's not looking good.
June 2, 2016
It was another productive week. I completed a couple of projects and made good progress on a few more. The repairs on the Mini were completed late today and I will get it back tomorrow.
On a sad note, Carol had to make an emergency trip back to Des Moines, Iowa to join the rest of her family at her ailing mother's bedside. It's not looking good.
On a sad note, Carol had to make an emergency trip back to Des Moines, Iowa to join the rest of her family at her ailing mother's bedside. It's not looking good.
May 26, 2016
Other than my parked Mini being rolled
into by a 20-ton dumptruck, it was a pretty good week. I solved the
autopilot problem, finished the restoration of the locker in the aft
head, finished the partition in a cockpit locker to protect the
electrics, nearly finished storm covers for the aft portholes in the
aft cabin, and made a good start on panels to close off the aft end
of the cockpit. Even the weather was delightful. Dealing with the
damaged Mini is no fun, though.
May 19, 2016
I worked on multiple projects this week
as well as talked with vendors about sails, series drogue, autopilot and
deck awning. Still wrestling with the HIN issue. Right now the
difficulty is the first three letters that are supposed to be the
manufacturers identification code. If Circadian were a US boat, I
could just look it up online. But she's English, and the
manufacturer is long gone. I've contacted a friend who has a Salar 40
as well as the Salar Owners Group to see if anyone has an answer, but
haven't gotten any responses yet. I'm about 90% finished with
installing a small panel to protect the electrics next to the engine
room vent in the side of the cockpit, but fear that in the process
I've mucked up the cable connectors to the autopilot, which now is
not working. I'll be trouble-shooting that soon. I'm about half way along in repairing the shelves in the aft head locker. They'll be needed when I have crew along. I also patched a whole
in my old surfboard/kayak so I can donate it to the outrigger club raffle and washed some of the grunge off the boat. Still feel like
I'm climbing a sand dune, but I am making progress.
Weather has been May gray, with a
couple of hours of sun starting late in the afternoon.
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