April 28th 2013 - Launching Tomorrow
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 6:53 pm
We launch tomorrow. I'm surprisingly calm at the moment.
Over the winter I've done a lot of work (not that you'd bloomin' know) and among other things I ended up replacing most of the components in all 9 of our seacocks as a result of destruction testing revealing serious levels of de-zincification throughout. Quite glad we didn't go to sea too much last year now - but the fact is that I've got circa 30 new connections under the waterline. Just one not being watertight and we'll have to come out again to fix it - so this is not so much a health hazard worry as a wallet hazard one.
My other concern is that I've also installed the Racor Duplex fuel filter - with new connections galore in the fuel system. I've bled it, and run up the engine on the hard for an hour without issue, but in the water we will inevitably draw more fuel. Any air leak will potentially leave us dead in the water, with the tide going out, and 6 miles to go to safe, deep water.
On the plus side, we've got the camera and video camera batteries charged, so if it does all go wrong, at least we'll have it on film
If I get a mo I'll post up a list, for the record, of everything I worked on and got done etc over the winter... and things I wanted to get done and didn't... and the ~8 new rain leaks I found and fixed (8 - 1 of = 1 remaining).
Listening to 'Brass Hour' on BBC Radio Devon now while checking the value of my 'litecoins'. Anyone else bought into cryptocurrency? It's keeping my mind off boat worries.
Hopefully will next report from the water......
Over the winter I've done a lot of work (not that you'd bloomin' know) and among other things I ended up replacing most of the components in all 9 of our seacocks as a result of destruction testing revealing serious levels of de-zincification throughout. Quite glad we didn't go to sea too much last year now - but the fact is that I've got circa 30 new connections under the waterline. Just one not being watertight and we'll have to come out again to fix it - so this is not so much a health hazard worry as a wallet hazard one.
My other concern is that I've also installed the Racor Duplex fuel filter - with new connections galore in the fuel system. I've bled it, and run up the engine on the hard for an hour without issue, but in the water we will inevitably draw more fuel. Any air leak will potentially leave us dead in the water, with the tide going out, and 6 miles to go to safe, deep water.
On the plus side, we've got the camera and video camera batteries charged, so if it does all go wrong, at least we'll have it on film
If I get a mo I'll post up a list, for the record, of everything I worked on and got done etc over the winter... and things I wanted to get done and didn't... and the ~8 new rain leaks I found and fixed (8 - 1 of = 1 remaining).
Listening to 'Brass Hour' on BBC Radio Devon now while checking the value of my 'litecoins'. Anyone else bought into cryptocurrency? It's keeping my mind off boat worries.
Hopefully will next report from the water......
thanks Rob