It was nice having a day off yesterday — but much too cold for me to leave the house. We should see a high in the upper 20’s today – the proverbial heat wave. Right now I have had to resort to using pencils since the ink is too sluggish in my pens. I also didn’t stray too far to look for photos. Just in case you visit everyday, I will be out of the office tomorrow for medical reasons so there may not be a post (unless I can cobble something together late this afternoon).
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On the same boat we found the bad drive saver install we had to remove and rebed the swim platform.
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The bolts were cleaned up to get all the old paint and dried up bedding off before re-installation.
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As you can see in the photo below, the platform is back on the boat with a visible bead of our favorite bedding compound (
Sikaflex) Also, you may notice the rudder at 90 degrees to the boat. We had to remove the quadrant to repack the stuffing box.
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On the GB Europa, Izzy was able to bring the transom door into the shop to work on it where it is at least 10 degrees warmer than it is outside.
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John recently got a new Iphone and sent me a bunch of photos presumably for the blog. Of course they had not text with them so I won’t try to venture a guess what this is (but if I had to, I would guess they are breaking ice) — but it is a nice photo taken during my extended holiday.
Mid-Week Pick Me Up
Just so you’ll know I’m not always grumpy! (The young guy is my son)