27th December
It is rather more comfortable working at home, but annoying when you realise that you need something that is on the boat 200 miles away, this time the sail makers kit I need to make a cover for the newly varnished tiller and to remake the throw bag that, like the emergency ladders, has suffered from UV and is starting to fall to pieces; planned obsolescence I suspect, straight forward canvas would last longer, the current one is the second I have bought and about 4 years old. Still there should be plenty of time to make those after my next visit to Milford which will be as soon as we get a warm spell.
I am fitting a remote card reader for the plotter to save removing the cover to get at the cards - I could not get the current Garmin Navionics chart to transfer from the iPad in one go but it was quick and straight forward to write it to the SD card using Garmin Express. The reader will going in the hole visible but was too long and and interfered with the back of the plotter so I had to put deeper side pieces on it and revarnish. The section with no side pieces is where the radio goes giving me access to the aerial socket if necessary and exposing the radio heat sinks to keep it cool.
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| Some repainting of engine bits in process, about 3 days more for the air filter cover and one or two for the water pump. |
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