The freshwater system all works now! Imagine that, you turn on the tap and water comes out. You move the toilet lever and the bowl fills with water. You pump the arm and it flushes. Cool.
The A/C electrical system all works now! Imagine that, you plug in an appliance and it works.
The propane detector, umm, not quite. That keeps the stove out of commission for now. One of the sensors for the detector is bad anda new one is only about 60 bucks. That’s only a fraction of a boat buck so we can handle it alright.
The stereo is fixed too. We only had sound coming out of one speaker and that sucked but it turned out to be a $2.00 fix. This is the San Francisco Bay area so it actually cost $3.00, not $2.00, but still pretty small on the boat spending scale.
The engine is still on the ground underneath the boat. The boatyard’s crane is broken so they can’t lift it up and in for us. If they can’t do it tomorrow, we’ll use the halyards, the boom and the come-along to lift it up. It’ll be the reverse of what we did to get the dead Perkins 4.107 out. It’s hard work and it’s scary but we can do it. We hope to have this boat in the water in a couple of weeks. She still needs bottom paint and we’re not allowed to do our own bottom paint here so we might end up waiting for the boatyard on that.
At any rate, it was a good day.
Twitter Updates
Hi guys! Whoa, you’ve been posting a lot. I don’t have time to read it all right now, but I will…kinda’ got hung up on photo of egg salad sandwich–looks delicious. Your project is going great, congrats!
I can’t believe how rapidly you’re progressing. Steve–thanks for text message.