Les has gone home and is probably happy that he's back home and no one is asking him to fix things with the promise that it's only a little job. How hard could it be to change a light bulb in the head, rework a winch or 2, reset stanchions and help Ruediger? Turns out it wasn't just the light bulb it was an entire electrical problem brought on by leaky bolts in the track that holds the cars that control the jib sail settings. The ceiling had to be taken down and all the bolts had to be reset - took hours.
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| Stanchions |
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| A lot of holes in the ceiling. |
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| Ruediger |
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| Winches |
Some of the pins in the winches refused to come out so that took hours; stanchions didn't put up much of a fight so that was a quick job; hoisting Ruediger up his mast took up most of a day. Not to mention they took apart the 30 amp power inlet (in the cockpit) thinking it was shorting out the GFI circuit breaker. In the process had to take the engine control panel off which was fastened with 5200 (a virtually permanent bond). Another simple job, took hours and that wasn't even the problem.
Don't know if he's ever coming back..........
And in the meantime Chris, Gerry and I attended an art show - now no one can say the 3 of us ain't got no culture. Les didn't want any culture.
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| Chris and I made the newspaper. Artist and neighbour Boryana is sitting next to me. |
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