Kaimusailing

The night’s rest in the cook’s bunk did me well. I didn’t have to get up and go topside to cross the deck to the cold galley to make breakfast, the cook’s bunk is right forward of the galley, so I just had to get up and start cooking. Well, that isn’t entirely true, it was cold and windy and the little propane heater had run out of fuel long ago. I put on a pull over sweat shirt and took empty cannisters to the propane tank down at ground level and filled them. Then the heater was fired up and breakfast could begin. I had slept late and eagerly sautéed ham and onions, made coffee, then mixed the sautee into beaten eggs and began an omelet, adding slices of hoop cheddar to melt on top. There was a lot of commotion outside, workers were braving the cold and grinding on nearby hulls.
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The omelet was perfect and I did a crossword puzzle. I had some whole wheat bread along with the omelet. Outside, the sound of the wind indicated 30 to 40 knots from maybe the southwest. I put away the crossword puzzle and began to work. A stepladder had been blown over. I moved it and another away from the boat. Someone else could use them. I finished tightening the bolts that hold the bow ramp to the #1 crossbeam. I went on the bicycle to the mail boxes and found I could ride a little bit, then jibe off and let the wind take me there. The trees were bending over and any loose objects were rolling around the boatyard. No mail came in.
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I skipped lunch due to a late and hearty breakfast. I did a quick cosmetic grinding of some roughness on the helm station, then mixed some two part paint to add a second coat to the repaired beams and to parts of the helm station.
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I took a break and searched online for a solution to the black spot on camera LCD problem. It looks like this is caused by someone pressing too hard on the LCD or dropping the camera and striking the LCD. A new LCD for this little camera was about 9 bucks, from China, maybe 2 to to 3 weeks delivery, I hope.
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The problem of broken battery door latch is common on these Fujifilm Z70 cameras. The first one that came in was repaired by gluing a small piece of plastic to the latch pin on the battery door. This second camera had a good latch pin, but had broken the clasp, I guess you’d call it, on the camera body. I moved the good latch to the first camera, which now had nothing broken on it, and now the second camera had a cobbed up latch and no clasp. I was going to use a rubber band to hold the door shut but couldn’t find my little bag of rubber bands. Why not glue something onto the camera body and restore the latch?
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I whittled a small piece of toothpick sized wood off the epoxy mixing stick and glued it onto the camera body with 5 minute epoxy. the epoxy was pushed around a little bit, after it had begun to firm up, to make room for the battery door to close properly. Also the little piece of wood had to be held in position until the epoxy set. It didn’t take long and the door now worked perfectly. If the repair breaks I’ll just have to find those rubber bands.
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I went off to check the mail boxes for any deliveries and took the camera to test it out further. I ended up in the woodshop with Ron and Troy. A few others passed through and we heard stories about the high winds. A boat had left the dock a couple days ago and had trouble with the wind then. Now how were they doing? No one had any news. One said he was a kayak flying through the air, spinning on its way. Another said he had foam plastic templates of pilothouse windows on the dock with a cement block to keep them from blowing away. They blew away. All the while the woodshop was creaking and groaning with each gust of wind.
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I kept taking pictures with the little black camera and I noticed a lot of lens flare, more even than a cell phone camera. Here is a shot of Ron working in front of a large window.