Emptied ,Cleaned and vacuumed inside and gave her a quick wash off Still have to finish of three areas the mast step ,throttle and anchor well then thats all the painting for now. Ill sand and cut and polish as I go over the next few months sections at a time. I like the fresh color
Ill move the solar panel to the roof tomorrow it will give me cabin roof shade over summer .
You can see the original color on the cock pit floor
little update moved the solar panel this morning pumping 14.20 volts on its temporary wooden mounts. If it comes out summer this afternoon Ill put some epoxy filler on the anchor well and throttle areas.
24 hours to go! The longest 5 days of my life I'm sure! Just have to get 750kg of junk from Cairns to SA Now!
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24 hours to go! The longest 5 days of my life I'm sure! Just have to get 750kg of junk from Cairns to SA Now!
Truck it if your in no big hurry Simond transport is good for it bought a box or two for me down the track
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I will truck my crappy car she will take 600kg I think!
put some under the bonnet but tell them f you do 
so they dont start it they probably fork it on
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Musical solar panels!
Yep Birthday on the 8th had to make room in the cock pit Im 21 again South Ace .Well Ive been 21 a few times now 
well a fair few times OK
Plus its summer the shade for the cabin will be great
First coat on sanding tonight and another coat after. TIll sand and orime the throttle on the way how also . Urgent job at work got a go,
The old tiller, sanded and given 4 coats of Boatcraft non yellowing resin and 3 sprayed coats of clear gloss.
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The old tiller, sanded and given 4 coats of Boatcraft non yellowing resin and 3 sprayed coats of clear gloss.
Help me out here, what do the four coats of resin do that aren't being done by the three coats of varnish?
Time will tell. The first coat of resin had a penetrating thinner and then the final clear gloss water based coats hopefully will give a reasonably long finish. This was much the same finish I used on the tender.
sanded and primed my throttle and anchor well and sanded and paint the hatch cover Only hassle I have had the hatch cover is being painted at home here as just after I painted it a collection of insects must have loved the smell so its now light cream with black spots Ill be wet sanding it see how the black spots come off.
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The old tiller, sanded and given 4 coats of Boatcraft non yellowing resin and 3 sprayed coats of clear gloss.
you Done a excellent job on the tiller Boatin
Put a few fish scales in the cockpit yesterday. Beautiful day at sea with a fair bit of traffic. Several Hobart racers returning to Sydney. All seemed to be motor sailing. The one in the photo is the closest encounter, Kaleesie"'
While I was out I heard on the news of a yacht catching fire on the river near Nowra. For the locals it was near the Paper mill. TV news last night showed the remnants and said it was a 40 footer with a solo 52 year old. Others have said it was an Adams 31 and it was moored next to my yacht for 4 days while I was in SA. Hopefully there will be some follow up info. Apparently he was motoring East from Nowra. I suspect a cooker fire as the fire was pretty intense by all accounts.
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Motored slowly over to Deeban Spit (big sandbar in the Port hacking) and anchored in close to the shore so I could get under and clean the prop. Motored home at a good clip.
Cleaned the mould off the cockpit cushions. ..bought cockroach baits bombs and spray...swept up cockroach crap...entertained visitors. ..enticed one to go up mast to investigate why halyard won't run freely. ..got hit with bad migraine. ..been laid up out of action
Finally got the chartplotter to see the AIS, so now have reports and plots of nearby vessels.
Now have to get the DSC radio to see the chartplotter for a GPS position!
lol, Naughty. Get well soon.
I finally got all the basic components of my new windlass system in place. I had the shipwright install the windlass into the deck on the last haul out. Took longer than I expected to run the thick wiring, install the solenoid and circuit breaker. Today I put an extra thick PVC tube from the deck through to the lower storage locker which is now the new anchor locker. At first I ran the tube at a slight angle forward to keep the storage space as clear as possible thinking that the installation instructions about having a vertical drop couldn't be 'that' particular. However, when I compared the angled to the vertical drop (before glassing the tube in) I think the angle may have adversely effected the winding of the rope. I wasn't sure but I thought I'd better make the drop vertical, as recommended. Drilled another hole directly under the windlass and glassed in the tube (in photo it looks angled but it isn't).
Wound all the rope and chain in. Yay!
During this I also did my first chain to rope back splice which was fun.
Next,
- buy working up/down switch (mine's dodgy) and install in cockpit (anyone have any recommendations re best place for this?)
- assess what might be needed to protect the surface of the hatch/deck as the chain runs across it. Maybe some SS sheeting.
- install deck switch/es? Not sure I want a switch on deck so wondering if I can put it inside the anchor locker on deck. However, because the chain runs across the lid I'd need to keep a plastic winch handle somewhere forward so I can change it to free fall to lift chain to open locker to activate the switch. Then when it's up I'd need to do that again to close the lid. Gah, sounds like a hassle. Maybe I don't need switch/es at the bow. Any opinions based on experience???
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The old tiller, sanded and given 4 coats of Boatcraft non yellowing resin and 3 sprayed coats of clear gloss.
gorgeous
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little update moved the solar panel this morning pumping 14.20 volts on its temporary wooden mounts. If it comes out summer this afternoon Ill put some epoxy filler on the anchor well and throttle areas.
Looking great HG. This rain up here has been driving me nuts Still can't get a dry window to paint my cabin.
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Cleaned the mould off the cockpit cushions. ..bought cockroach baits bombs and spray...swept up cockroach crap...entertained visitors. ..enticed one to go up mast to investigate why halyard won't run freely. ..got hit with bad migraine. ..been laid up out of action
Hopefully you killed all of those cockroaches. I have a pest control company and we treat quite a few boats especially when there is a german cockroach problem (they are the small ones)
If you buy maxforce cockroach gel on the internet and put tiny little dots of it every where where you think the cockies could possibly be you have a good chance od getting rid of them.
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Thanks Andy. Mine are the huge ones..like skateboards
Thats easy then most sprays and baits will work on the big cockies. The biggest mistake people make is spraying around the baits so that the cockroaches are repelled from the area where you placed the bait.
I gave them the vaits two days ago .they were dying everywhere this morning I set
Off a bomb when I left today
What have I done to my sailing boat today?
well far to much to add to here but Icon has Aircon now again! After 2 breakdowns in two consecutive days it's finaly running stable.
1st day it was just a airlock caused by possible seaweed in the strainer, but this was not determined until I got back from my 1 hour drive to the pump specialist after a bench test. I got him to put a 240volt plug onto the pump motor so I could control the pum separte to the control box.....but after re-plumbing it still would not pump water so it wasn't until after I decided to suck on the outlet hose I ended up with salt water gushing down my throat!
2nd day after leaving the boat for 2 hours on my return I noticed the boat was hot ...water was pumping but the air flow was very limited. After calling on a fellow boatie friend he told me the coil winding box at frozen up and that the fan could not suck cool air through the ice! So I unthawed it while drinking large amounts of cold beer to keep cool...we where advised that do not leave the unit at 18degrees which I had done. Now it's set at 20 and running fine!
The water tanks where bone dry so they needed the 800litre top up.
The gas was empty so I replaced the 9kg bottle and spent over a hour trying to find the electronic relay that operates the gas!
Batterys where bone dry hope they recover!
Dinghy and exterior was filthy and the newish 6hp suzuki wouldn't still won't start!
A test sail was performed and she sailed at 5.8 knots in 15 knots of breaze just on the beautifully cut head sail.
The Auto pilot is bullet proof!
The Perkins runs smooth and felt quite powerful.
Still many jobs to be done but I must confess it's nice to be living aboard again and having stuff to do!
