A visit and my off season repair list. What is making yours?
Visited Triple Play on the hard Monday night. I wanted to make sure that they replaced the back stay properly after haul out. After the kink they installed last year, that blew the beginning of the season for me with its required replacement, I had to check. It was fine. The new turnbuckle was well lubricated with Tefgel, so they had little excuse to screw it up, but you never know.
TP is in pole position for spring, with her late October haul. I have plenty of things to fix this off season, but an early launch sure looks tempting. Maybe I'll do so then snag a temporary slip at the club to do some of the above the water line repairs at. :dance:
This off season I need to replace the fw tank under the vee berth. That should be a blast. I may have to cut my way in then cut the tank up to get it out. Then shell out about $ for a new plastic tank.
As long as I am doing the tank thing I should replace my aluminum fuel tank too. It was patched by the PO before I bought it. If I knew he was going to pull it I would have drop shipped him a new plastic one. Since the darn thing pinholed in multiple places once, it is certainly destined to do so again shortly. The tank is still 3/4 full. I only burned 1/4 of a tank this season because I only sailed her six times. My friend has a pump, so I could pump the tank out and throw the diesel in my house's oil tank.
On the lighter side, I should finish the teak grab rails. I started stripping them and they sat stripped all season. I am thinking about taking them off entirely so I can take them home and do a stellar job on them. Perhaps while I am unbolting them from the deck I can also unbolt the wooden bases for the turning blocks, refinish and rebed them on deck. They were a little damp during the survey. Letting them dry out over the winter couldn't hurt.
Then there is also the task of resealing the chain plates. The PO fixed the main bulk heads which should mean he resealed 2 of 6 properly, but I guess I will feel better if I redo those as well as the other 4, which are overdue. Plus I need to clean up and lube the closed turnbuckles with Tef Gel so they won't get bound up. I may just replace the closed turnbuckles with new ones and keep the old shrouds for now. It would be easy and an improvement. Then I can replace the shrouds in pairs at my leisure in pairs until I get around to dropping the mast.
Wait a second...while I have the fuel tank out it presents a unique opportunity to have more physical space to evaluate if I do have a leaking rudder stuffing box. Which seems likely based on the input of someone on here (sorry, can't remember who I had that conversation with at the moment, but I am still drinking my first cup of coffee this morning.
The additional space would also allow me easier access to run the fw plumbing to my new cockpit shower. You know...the one I installed when I moved the GPS from the coaming...because it filled the hole in the coaming.
Speaking of which...I need to finish that job. The wires are almost all chased through the new pedestal guard. It is only about an hours work to complete all the wiring. I bought much heavier gauge than I needed for some of it and had to reorder thinner stuff. Then I just need to take it down to the boat and mount it.
Speaking of which, when I pull the cockpit table off the old guard I can drag it home and add it to my varnishing list. I oiled it the season before last when I installed it and it didn't last a season. Didn't get to it this season, which is pretty sad, but it was a miserable excuse for a season anyway.
Other things...new port light plastic...new forward hatch...add a siphon break to the exhaust...install the low cooling water alarm...mount the barometer on the bulkhead...rig the adjustable topping lift...fix the throttle tension...lube the steering...
Whew...I am tired already just thinking about all this stuff and I didn't even mention stripping the hull, ripping out and changing the sole and installing a block under the compression post while it is out. Although loosening the shrouds did make the dent in the deck disappear...I think...got to check that... Damn...I have to get going on this stuff!
Visited Triple Play on the hard Monday night. I wanted to make sure that they replaced the back stay properly after haul out. After the kink they installed last year, that blew the beginning of the season for me with its required replacement, I had to check. It was fine. The new turnbuckle was well lubricated with Tefgel, so they had little excuse to screw it up, but you never know.
TP is in pole position for spring, with her late October haul. I have plenty of things to fix this off season, but an early launch sure looks tempting. Maybe I'll do so then snag a temporary slip at the club to do some of the above the water line repairs at. :dance:
This off season I need to replace the fw tank under the vee berth. That should be a blast. I may have to cut my way in then cut the tank up to get it out. Then shell out about $ for a new plastic tank.
As long as I am doing the tank thing I should replace my aluminum fuel tank too. It was patched by the PO before I bought it. If I knew he was going to pull it I would have drop shipped him a new plastic one. Since the darn thing pinholed in multiple places once, it is certainly destined to do so again shortly. The tank is still 3/4 full. I only burned 1/4 of a tank this season because I only sailed her six times. My friend has a pump, so I could pump the tank out and throw the diesel in my house's oil tank.
On the lighter side, I should finish the teak grab rails. I started stripping them and they sat stripped all season. I am thinking about taking them off entirely so I can take them home and do a stellar job on them. Perhaps while I am unbolting them from the deck I can also unbolt the wooden bases for the turning blocks, refinish and rebed them on deck. They were a little damp during the survey. Letting them dry out over the winter couldn't hurt.
Then there is also the task of resealing the chain plates. The PO fixed the main bulk heads which should mean he resealed 2 of 6 properly, but I guess I will feel better if I redo those as well as the other 4, which are overdue. Plus I need to clean up and lube the closed turnbuckles with Tef Gel so they won't get bound up. I may just replace the closed turnbuckles with new ones and keep the old shrouds for now. It would be easy and an improvement. Then I can replace the shrouds in pairs at my leisure in pairs until I get around to dropping the mast.
Wait a second...while I have the fuel tank out it presents a unique opportunity to have more physical space to evaluate if I do have a leaking rudder stuffing box. Which seems likely based on the input of someone on here (sorry, can't remember who I had that conversation with at the moment, but I am still drinking my first cup of coffee this morning.
The additional space would also allow me easier access to run the fw plumbing to my new cockpit shower. You know...the one I installed when I moved the GPS from the coaming...because it filled the hole in the coaming.
Speaking of which...I need to finish that job. The wires are almost all chased through the new pedestal guard. It is only about an hours work to complete all the wiring. I bought much heavier gauge than I needed for some of it and had to reorder thinner stuff. Then I just need to take it down to the boat and mount it.
Speaking of which, when I pull the cockpit table off the old guard I can drag it home and add it to my varnishing list. I oiled it the season before last when I installed it and it didn't last a season. Didn't get to it this season, which is pretty sad, but it was a miserable excuse for a season anyway.
Other things...new port light plastic...new forward hatch...add a siphon break to the exhaust...install the low cooling water alarm...mount the barometer on the bulkhead...rig the adjustable topping lift...fix the throttle tension...lube the steering...
Whew...I am tired already just thinking about all this stuff and I didn't even mention stripping the hull, ripping out and changing the sole and installing a block under the compression post while it is out. Although loosening the shrouds did make the dent in the deck disappear...I think...got to check that... Damn...I have to get going on this stuff!