Up in time for the net. Breakfast and wait for Richard to show up. While he was a little late, he did everything we asked! The engine room has been cleaned, the engine paint touched up, the wash down pump has been remounted. He has a guy who can deal with the staysail roller, he will get the correct size hole saw and be back, After he and his team left, we got after some projects on deck, first up was getting the lines down, as we thought about putting the sails up, so all the lines are up. Next was fixing the stern light, I took the fixture apart and found the problem was a little corrosion on the contacts, so fiddling with the light was enough to fix the problem. Then we worked together to install the new auto release for the life raft. This has to be replaced every two years, the life raft is supposed to get certified every 3 years. (This is really dumb and a Palin in the butt), getting certified requires sending the life raft away to get repacked and is expensive. About 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of a new life raft or between $3000 and $5000 the auto release is about $200. Getting the life raft certification last year was a 6 month ordeal of finding out where to send it (San Diego means across a border, and taxes one way or the other). We sent it to the second choice, Cancun on the east coast, it was a little less money, but there was shipping either way. So, obviously there are a lot of people with outdated life rafts and auto releases.
After lunch we noted the wind was a little higher than we wanted for playing with sails. So, we installed the new lights fixtures for the overhead lights. This was a good project to work together on. We installed a total of 10 fixtures. All are LED. Four sets were two lights on a string, the fifth was adding to the Salon lighting, for a total of 7 lights on the string. Of all of those everything worked well except the set in our stateroom and the forward head. Those two would not get to full brilliance, and flickered. They worked with the old fixtures, but not the new LED fixtures. (The old ones were a different kind of LED). We found that with one old one and one new one they were fine, but looked funky. What I tried was holding an old LED lamp across the contacts on one of the new lamps and found that it made it all work. So, I soldered an old LED across the contacts in two of the lamps and put them up, it all works. There is more light everywhere. This was a project that four hands made much easier.
We thought about going to the pool for happy hour, but it is overcast, and looks like rain, so we will stay in today.
This was a very productive day!
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Taking the seanic route