Cuple days until Launch
25 November 2015 | Peaks Yard Trinidad
Georg Kohler
Yesterday afternoon I finally went over to Budget marine to pay for the chain ..
The night before I had tried to google the Maggi chain (Aqua4 3/8 ) I’m supposed to get to find out what the chain should be stamped with .. I could not figure it out …
So at the store I asked them about that = How do I know I’m getting the right chain and not some cheap Chinese copy? It created quite the stir until the warehouse manager finally found the description and we could verify the chain ..
As I had to "wait" for the chain to arrive and Tony to finish the varnish I started a new (Unplanned project) The Port side locker .. That thing got modified by the fuel-cell company as that’s where they stored all there propane tanks to power the fuel-cell during the atlantic crossing ..
The remains of that modification was still in there in the form of some useless propane tank holders fiberglassed into the port locker ..
So I finally removed them (Not all of them, as two a them are vertical low profile fixtures, that actually help me to secure our spare anchor)
Once they where cut out I decided to paint the locker (mostly because I wanted to get rid of all the fiber glass dust ) - I do hate fiberglass !
Now that the locker locked more presentable, It made no sense to put pack the old rust items I store in there - emergency tiller, spare anchor (s) and so on.....
So today I sanded and cleaned the tiller and then primed it with one of those “miracle” rost converters - it should be ready for paint by tomorrow .. On the spare anchor I just used some zinc phosphate paint to re coat the anchor (I’m not planning on using that anchor anyway) - hopefully it will last a few years ..
As a setback the engine guy didn’t show today - I need to check with him tomorrow and see if I can get him out … All he has to do is to change the two diesel filters and then make sure everything is running as expected (I did all the rest ) I could probably as easily change the filters myself, but I just like him to see the engine running and making sure everything looks and sounds Ok.