Ships Blog Single Posts
Previous Post <<<------>>> Next Post
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 23:48:00 GMT
SeaCocks
Another day in the yard
Today Sam and I focused on seacocks. He rebuilt two. I rebuilt two.
We took out the barrels, lapped them gently and greased them and put them
back together. There was a loose mounting bolt on one of the vberth
through hulls so we rebedded a new screw through the forward hull. Also
one of the small grease plugs/water drains on the side was stripped so we
put a new one in which was available at the chanderly at Zimmermans. I
got a couple spares just in case.
I also repaired the throttle handle on the binacle that had sheered off a
screw underway. I tried to helicoil it but to do a 1/4 screw requires a
3/8th outer tap and there wasn't enough meat left to do that so I tapped
it to 5/16th and put in a screw. I may have to do it again later but it
took a couple hours to carefully tap 1 inch through 316 stainless. It's
working and solid at the moment.
There is a tropical storm coming Friday and we may have flooding. We have
to move out of the Hotel on Saturday and the roads may be flooded. Then
there is another Hurricane coming the following week when we are scheduled
to be put back in the water. It's slated to make landfall here at
Hatterass around the 3rd of October and run up the Chesapeake. We may
need to run south as soon as we go back in the water. We're going to keep
a close eye on what it does. The tropical storm we have Tommorrow (we can
already see storm clouds forming on the horizon) really is like a
hurricane trying to form too close to land. We are expecting 40mph winds.
I really don't like all the storms but it's the nature of the western
Atlantic.