Friday:
We picked the boat up from the rigger at Richmond and delivered her back to Alameda.
We socialized (drank) with our neighbors until way too late .
Saturday:
Saturday:
The weather was crap and the main goal was to service the 4 primary winches...
Crew member Nick shows up to help:
These motorized 2-speed winches are slightly more complicated than little Eyrie's!
Will they remember how it all goes back together?
I think it's required that at least one part fall overboard. Here is Rich with the twin of the one he drowned. The good news - it's only $3.00; the bad news - we couldn't find it anywhere in town so had to order it:
While the guys were arguing over how to service the winches I took our two spinnakers to Synthia's loft so we could measure them. They are huge and the luffs are 67 feet! We had to stretch them out the door and partway down the stairs.
Later I vacuumed inside the boat, polished metal and cleaned all the glass.
Thankfully Hilari and Timo showed up that evening to interrupt our work and make mojitos. We whipped up an Asian noodle salad with grilled pork and decided the salad would be a good meal with any fresh fish we catch on the way to Hawaii; so we weren't slacking, we were doing Pac Cup research.
Sunday:
More winch work and and The Oil Change...The beautiful galley turns into a workshop:
Tom installs an oil change pump in the engine so that oil changes "won't be such a fuckin' hassle" in the future:
The boys wire it through the engine room light. Aren't they clever?
Verdict - "this pump is too fucking slow but it's clean". Tom told me it's "so easy even you could do an oil change."
Should I be insulted? No, "I'm sure I'd find some way to screw it up honey." Better to let him keep doing oil changes perfectly. More on this later...
While Rich finished the winches and Tom tortured himself with the pace of the oil pump I tried to lighten the boat by taking extra crap out of storage areas. I got rid of about 15 lbs of magazines and DVDs and 20 lbs of books:
I also managed to ferret out about 15 lbs of excess wire and 10 lbs of just plain junk including the old owner's credit card (expired of course):
Tom Bulfrogged the engine mounts to prevent further rusting Rich removed crane from back of boat and scrubbed the topsides.
While Rich and I retied the boat incorrectly and put away the hose in a substandard fashion we spotted a 4 foot bat ray at the surface of the dock feeding on the algae and sea lettuce. As I tied the line to a cleat on the dock he snuffled up to the surface and scared the hell out of me! It was cool.
Remember Tom's "easy" oil change? Heh...turns out he replaced the oil with two different kinds, one of which was not correct. Hopefully this isn't a big deal since the the wrong type is only about 25%. His second mistake, he put too much oil in and had to re-pump the damn thing to remove the excess oil. This last maneuver added at least one hour to our departure time so once again we didn't leave the boat until after 9:00 p.m.
We were further delayed while Tom retied the lines and re-coiled the hose correctly. Sigh...
