By the easter weekend, some more chipping, more cutting....and not much else.

Two interesting items came up.

First was the ER water intake point.
Currently the boat has a HUGE rising steel pipe which takes of to the ‘sea chest’. Andrew had been in a discussion with a SAMSA surveyor and mentioned that he was working on this boat. Surveyor promptly suggested that the rising inlet gets replaced with a ‘normal / standard’ sea cock.
When asked why, it was explained that for any commercial operation we may want to delve into, that SAMSA would NOT approve this type of inlet as it did not have a shut off mechanism - evidently Spirit of Victoria almost sank as her inlet pipe rusted thro and there was no means to shut off.....!

We discussed replacing the rising inlet with 2 seacocks, to a common sea chest. This would overcome the SAMSA issues, as well as provide alternate inlet point in case of blockage, while maintaining a sea chest system.
Mmmm, something to think about !


The second was a, what we assumed a removable access, screwed onto the forefoot of the keel. We had no idea what it was / was for !
Transpires form the designers drawings, that it is / was an ‘optional’ transducer void. decided that it must be opened up, made sure it was empty, and permanently closed.

While checking this out, we noticed that the keel base was slightly dented. Seems that she has hit something before. Not to worried tho : )

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