As seen in my last post, Windchime wasn’t going anywhere without fixing the cooling system. I had established that water was running through the system ok, so I crossed my fingers and waited for the pump to be returned to… Continue reading
*still not moving As an update to my last post, here is a diagram of the front of the engine – I have drawn a box around where the seawater pump was (this is post removal) And this is… Continue reading
*spoiler – not actually moved. So after my last decision to haul out, I made one last stab at slowing the leak. I slowed it, but realised that there was a ton of water trapped under the new fiberglass, so… Continue reading
So after 5 days and around $100 of various epoxys, putty and fiberglassing, it’s still leaking. And I got epoxy all in my beard 🙁 So I’ve decided to admit defeat and get hauled out again, ugh. I’m just going… Continue reading
Quick update – after spending around 15-20 hours on the leak, I’ve finally got it down to very little and hope to completely seal it tomorrow. I’ve put layers and layers of different epxoy and even fiberglassed the whole thing… Continue reading
After I finished the last entry, I realised that Canadian Tire had some Water-Weld (by JB Weld) and they closed at 9. So off to Canadian Tire I went. I picked some up and had an attempt at putting some… Continue reading
One thing I’ve been noticing is a lot of water in the bilge. I thought this was just fresh water from rain/snow, but it’s been dry for several days and the bilge was still filling up, so I decided it… Continue reading
Now the boat is in Fisherman’s Wharf, I’ve had to think exactly what steps I needed to take to get her ready to live on. The first thing I decided was to remove as much stuff as I could from… Continue reading