Hi Everyone,
Our second weekend up at the boat this spring occured this past weekend, and it was...well, interesting.
First Interesting Event: Arrived at the boat, and opened the companionway, went to turn on the cabin lights, and ping...there goes the circuit breaker for the cabin lights! "Huh?", says I.
Well, 3 hours later, you would hear this general 'fuming' sound coming from my rather corpuscular body, as it tries to insinuate itself between the liner and cabin fiberglass layers, trying to follow the mainline of power for the cabin lights. THere was no way that this pair of wire was going to budge a mm.
Eventually one would have heard a well formed and enthusiasticly voiced "Well Damn!", upon finding that the trouble actually had started last weekend, after drilling the mounting holes for a new AM/FM antenna to be mounted on our starboard coach side, near the front of the dodger. There was one set of wires there..one. This one was actually routed from the breaker panel, up and over the headliner material, and diagonally over tot he first starboard light. There was apparently a foot or so of loose wire in that run, and the excess had drooped over the starboard side, and just happened to be precisely dead square under my drill bit as it worked through two layers of fiberglass.
Eventually, I had to isolate both ends of this wire, then install a bypass around the shorted out section, complete with an accompanying ground wire. What a job!
So I got down to the job we really wanted to finish this weekend..replacing two sensor thruhulls with new ones (was going to pull the head's sink thruhull and seacock, as it was not used at all now, but the angle is totally wrong, and the clearanc is too small for the sensors. So, I did verify the tools needed for this work next weekend..(Launch is the following weekend we hope).
Ah so goes the life of the sailor,
Cheers!
Larry DeMers
s/v DeLaMer
Cape Dory 30 ~~~~~Lake Superior~~~~~~~~
demers@sgi.com
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D. Stump, Hanalei
Re: At least YOU did it !
Larry,
At least you have the satisfaction of knowing that YOU were the cause of all that good time spent at the boat! The thing I really hate is when you have to fix/repair someone else's blunder!
Hanalei went in Friday, and her skipper is no longer on half pay! When the yard stepped the mast, I noticed one enterprising worker trying to adjust the starboard shrouds. I walked up next to him on deck on touched the aft lower. It was BAR tight! I said, "What are you doing?" Response "Trying to get these weird bends out of your mast!" Captain said "Just leave it, I will adjust the tensions myself!"
Imagine if you will what would have happened if I had relied on the yard to properly adjust the rigging. Would they have kept tightening until they drove the mast through the cabin top? I guess you have to watch everything people do now a days to make sure things are done properly. Too bad!
Anyhow, Hanalei is in the water. Carol & I went down Saturday and cleaned all compartments, lockers, drawers and spaces before we loaded all the "good stuff" back aboard. Carol even used a diluted Murphy's Oil Soap on the interior teak and it looks great! Only thing left to do is bend on the sails and go sailing! Supposed to be in the 70's here in New England this weekend, so maybe the shake down cruise will be on Saturday. Fair winds and glad your cabin lights work.........
Dave Stump
Captain Commanding
s/v Hanalei CD-30
At least you have the satisfaction of knowing that YOU were the cause of all that good time spent at the boat! The thing I really hate is when you have to fix/repair someone else's blunder!
Hanalei went in Friday, and her skipper is no longer on half pay! When the yard stepped the mast, I noticed one enterprising worker trying to adjust the starboard shrouds. I walked up next to him on deck on touched the aft lower. It was BAR tight! I said, "What are you doing?" Response "Trying to get these weird bends out of your mast!" Captain said "Just leave it, I will adjust the tensions myself!"
Imagine if you will what would have happened if I had relied on the yard to properly adjust the rigging. Would they have kept tightening until they drove the mast through the cabin top? I guess you have to watch everything people do now a days to make sure things are done properly. Too bad!
Anyhow, Hanalei is in the water. Carol & I went down Saturday and cleaned all compartments, lockers, drawers and spaces before we loaded all the "good stuff" back aboard. Carol even used a diluted Murphy's Oil Soap on the interior teak and it looks great! Only thing left to do is bend on the sails and go sailing! Supposed to be in the 70's here in New England this weekend, so maybe the shake down cruise will be on Saturday. Fair winds and glad your cabin lights work.........
Dave Stump
Captain Commanding
s/v Hanalei CD-30
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Larry DeMers
Re: At least YOU did it !
Hi Dave and all,
Yeah..it is best that I did it myself..lordy, trying to force an entire arm into the power panel cutout, and up past the cabin ceiling/coach roof sandwich nearly had me doubled over in laughter! All I could say was "You gotta be kiddin!" (if any of you know me..I'm not the smallest of individuals..).
Anyway, you know what? It was just a real pleasure to get back into restricting my life, thoughts and concerns to the boat, my friend and wife Jan, and the weather, which cooperated. I actually felt relaxed today, despite the wrestling and hassles.
Dave, you must know the feeling, with getting out this early for that first sail. Is there anything more beautiful?
Cheers!!
Larry DeMers
s/v DeLaMer
Cape Dory 30
demers@sgi.com
Yeah..it is best that I did it myself..lordy, trying to force an entire arm into the power panel cutout, and up past the cabin ceiling/coach roof sandwich nearly had me doubled over in laughter! All I could say was "You gotta be kiddin!" (if any of you know me..I'm not the smallest of individuals..).
Anyway, you know what? It was just a real pleasure to get back into restricting my life, thoughts and concerns to the boat, my friend and wife Jan, and the weather, which cooperated. I actually felt relaxed today, despite the wrestling and hassles.
Dave, you must know the feeling, with getting out this early for that first sail. Is there anything more beautiful?
Cheers!!
Larry DeMers
s/v DeLaMer
Cape Dory 30
D. Stump, Hanalei wrote: Larry,
At least you have the satisfaction of knowing that YOU were the cause of all that good time spent at the boat! The thing I really hate is when you have to fix/repair someone else's blunder!
Hanalei went in Friday, and her skipper is no longer on half pay! When the yard stepped the mast, I noticed one enterprising worker trying to adjust the starboard shrouds. I walked up next to him on deck on touched the aft lower. It was BAR tight! I said, "What are you doing?" Response "Trying to get these weird bends out of your mast!" Captain said "Just leave it, I will adjust the tensions myself!"
Imagine if you will what would have happened if I had relied on the yard to properly adjust the rigging. Would they have kept tightening until they drove the mast through the cabin top? I guess you have to watch everything people do now a days to make sure things are done properly. Too bad!
Anyhow, Hanalei is in the water. Carol & I went down Saturday and cleaned all compartments, lockers, drawers and spaces before we loaded all the "good stuff" back aboard. Carol even used a diluted Murphy's Oil Soap on the interior teak and it looks great! Only thing left to do is bend on the sails and go sailing! Supposed to be in the 70's here in New England this weekend, so maybe the shake down cruise will be on Saturday. Fair winds and glad your cabin lights work.........
Dave Stump
Captain Commanding
s/v Hanalei CD-30
demers@sgi.com
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Ken Coit
Re: At least YOU did it !
Yes, more beautiful is not having to go on the hard in the Winter.
Ken
parfait@nc.rr.com
Ken
Larry DeMers wrote: Hi Dave and all,
Yeah..it is best that I did it myself..lordy, trying to force an entire arm into the power panel cutout, and up past the cabin ceiling/coach roof sandwich nearly had me doubled over in laughter! All I could say was "You gotta be kiddin!" (if any of you know me..I'm not the smallest of individuals..).
Anyway, you know what? It was just a real pleasure to get back into restricting my life, thoughts and concerns to the boat, my friend and wife Jan, and the weather, which cooperated. I actually felt relaxed today, despite the wrestling and hassles.
Dave, you must know the feeling, with getting out this early for that first sail. Is there anything more beautiful?
Cheers!!
Larry DeMers
s/v DeLaMer
Cape Dory 30
D. Stump, Hanalei wrote: Larry,
At least you have the satisfaction of knowing that YOU were the cause of all that good time spent at the boat! The thing I really hate is when you have to fix/repair someone else's blunder!
Hanalei went in Friday, and her skipper is no longer on half pay! When the yard stepped the mast, I noticed one enterprising worker trying to adjust the starboard shrouds. I walked up next to him on deck on touched the aft lower. It was BAR tight! I said, "What are you doing?" Response "Trying to get these weird bends out of your mast!" Captain said "Just leave it, I will adjust the tensions myself!"
Imagine if you will what would have happened if I had relied on the yard to properly adjust the rigging. Would they have kept tightening until they drove the mast through the cabin top? I guess you have to watch everything people do now a days to make sure things are done properly. Too bad!
Anyhow, Hanalei is in the water. Carol & I went down Saturday and cleaned all compartments, lockers, drawers and spaces before we loaded all the "good stuff" back aboard. Carol even used a diluted Murphy's Oil Soap on the interior teak and it looks great! Only thing left to do is bend on the sails and go sailing! Supposed to be in the 70's here in New England this weekend, so maybe the shake down cruise will be on Saturday. Fair winds and glad your cabin lights work.........
Dave Stump
Captain Commanding
s/v Hanalei CD-30
parfait@nc.rr.com