Troubleshooting a light
So a bedside light doesn’t work, and hasn’t since I got the boat. Hmm, what could be wrong? I finally had a bit of time to investigate. Lets unscrew the middle and have a look! Oh… that can’t be...
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Out of the water again…
Back in Friday, everything willing. Though i’ve learnt with boats never to make your plans too firm…
Read MoreRaw water system fixin’
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...
Read MoreBoat Moving Two*
*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 the heat exchanger – the...
Read MoreGetting ready
I arrived at my boat and was pleased to see the yard had finished the painting – the bottom looks a lot better now! I’d planned to fix some of the gel coat that had been scraped off on the hull, but it was...
Read MoreFrustrations
So I arrived Saturday morning, laden with cleaning products, ready to start scrubbing the HELL out of the boat. Except – the water was off at the yard. For the forseeable future. Argh. I tried scrubbing with a bucket of...
Read MoreFinishing off
The last couple of days have been spent finishing off the two things I started – mainly filling the below-waterline holes, and removing the holding tank. First, the holes – I’d filled them with marine-tex, and...
Read MoreMarina! Good. Holding tank spills, Baaaaaad.
Yesterday I got some good news – there was a slip at Fisherman’s Wharf available! This was great news since there is a waiting list for most of the liveaboard places in Victoria. I had to submit a ton of...
Read MoreWeekend Work
First order of business – fix the holes in the boat. I had drilled them a couple of days before, and let them dry out, since it had to be dry to create a secure bond. Bright sunshine was predicted for the weekend –...
Read MoreDoing thangs (cold wet gross thangs)
My next trip to the boat had two objectives – finish removing the exhaust elbow, and get that damn plate off the bottom (it was leaking, and I have no need for a HF radio grounding plate). For the first thing, thanks to my research on the internet, I’d discovered that trying to remove the […]
Read MoreGetting Serious
After getting to work extra early and taking some time in lieu after working at the weekend, I managed to get off work at 2, and headed over to the boat. First things first, I contacted Delta Marine and asked them about...
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