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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:17:00 GMT
Prepping for trip south
The last two days have been a blur. Here are some of
the items we are dealing with: 1. The roller furling is jamming at the
top car due to age. We have to keep it just a little loose to furl easily.
The sail had a penant at the top which allowed the car to be pulled all the
way to the stop without tightening the sail. This caused the sail to wear
and begin tearing on the luff bead/tape. We moved the penant to the bottom
so that we could control the tightness of the head sail but then you have
to losten it before furling. The dinghy is missing a plug on the transom
and is difficult to put together. The boards are hard to keep together.
We tied some line around the boards to hold them together during assembly.
Then we noticed that the repair of the front tow clew is weak so we rigged
the line to pull equally on three points: the clew and two handles. There
is no way to stow it on the deck without rolling it up so we will have to
get a different dinghy before going off shore. We purchased life vests for
offshore with jack lines to help prevent overboards. We had to attach the
spinnakar and the reacher to the deck but the chocks are unavailable so we
strapped them to the stanchions with rope. The spare anchor is strapped to
the supports by the main mast as well as the dinghy engine on the other
side. We are still sorting and inventorying everything on the boat and we
did our final clean out of the water system. I still have not solved the
charge/battery problem with the motor yet but we are going any way. The
goal is to leave in about 12 hours from now.
And wouldn't you know...
the balmar generator is not working. The mount is incorrect and it
wobbles. When it wobbles the belt makes black dust everywhere and the
Generator is too loose so it doesn't charge correctly either. I'm really
not sure what is charging and what is not but we need to get out of here.
So at 4 in the morning I removed the balmar generator. Tomorrow we will
eigher leave or we will fix the mounting bracket. More in the morning.