Kaimusailing

The Honda has been running well, but engine light keeps coming on with a P1077 code, intake runner gobbledygook. The Honda engineers and designers have made a complicated car that lasts a long time, but when it gets old, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. The intake manifold has a big rotary valve in it that modulates the intake runner length. It increases torque at low speeds and then at high speeds turbulates the air flow, it increases power and economy. When things are out of whack it generates error codes and the check engine light comes on.
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Work continued on the dinghy centerboard and rudder. I purchased some fittings for the rig, a cleat, a small block, and a fitting for the block to attach. The sprit rig was temporarily put together and mounted on a tripod stanchion. For some reason the luff lacing came loose and the sail was flapping around in the wind. A front had come through and there was about a quart of water in the dinghy. I scooped most of it out with my epoxy mixing bowl and then sponged the rest out.
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I had done a bunch of epoxy work filling divots in the rudder and centerboard, also the mast step, which is a nasty looking piece of wood was epoxied in place. Above it a 3/8” U-bolt was modified to become the mast partner and epoxied into the bow deck beam. Everything was in correct position and the sail size was per plan, so the boat should be balanced as designed.
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The pintles and gudgeons were lined up on the transom and rudder, holes drilled for the screws and bolts, and the apparatus was fit together dry, then disassembled for more epoxy work. The mast, sail, and sprit were mounted at the bow. A block was mounted on the mast for the sprit line that tensioned the sprit and head of the sail. It was secured on a cleat on the bow deck beam. The luff lacing was laced through the tack, brought down around the cleat back up to the tack and then tensioned and secured on the cleat.
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The mainsheet was run from the clew through a block centered at the front edge of the rear seat and anchored on a cleat forward of the seat on the centerline. The plans call for a line on the transom called a horse and the sail’s clew to be above where I have placed it by about a foot or so. The mainsheet the way I have led it is simpler. I didn’t cut the sail so that the foot and luff were less than 90 degrees, I left it square, uncut, from the ten dollar tarp. We’ll see how it works.
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Geoff came by and looked at the rig and asked when I was going sailing. Might not be too long at this rate.
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I rushed finishing the rudder and daggerboard. It was hot and the epoxy cured very quickly. When I had 3 coats on I began spreading an old can of white Rustoleum on the rudder, centerboard, and the mast step. The paint also dried quickly. In 24 hours I had 3 coats and reinstalled the pintles on the rudder.
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I had planned to make chicken parm but it was now too late. I went to Southern River Walk and ordered chicken parm sandwich and pinot noir. It was happy hour and reduced prices. I was exhausted but enjoyed the sandwich. A boisterous bunch of shooting enthusiasts were replaced by Geoff and Karen. I hadn’t been to this place in a while and it was maybe my last time there, I would be leaving after Easter.
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The sailing pram dinghy was nearing completion. I was looking for some sticks to make a tiller and extension. I found old swimming ladder cedar steps and ripped them to 3/4” strips. They were muddy had been sitting outside for years. I ran over them with the radial fiber brush in the Makita drill. The wood looked like new underneath. I glued strips together to make larger stronger sticks for the tiller and extension. Some scraps were screwed to the top of the centerboard to make a handle and stop to keep it from descending through the centerboard slot to the deep. Almost ready.
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The next day the strips of cedar wood were shaped to make a tiller, an extension for the tiller, and blocks at the top of the centerboard. That was it till the next day when the parts were shaped with belt sander with 36 grit belt. The trigger on the sander was clamped with a spring clamp and the sander was clamped to the folding table. I was able to round things off with the sander, then prime everything with epoxy, then fill any voids, screw holes, and fair everything. The fairing compound will have to be sanded off smooth and the parts painted.
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A set of free tires was offered, but the date code on them was 7 years old. No tire place would touch them. I do have to replace the front tires on the CRV.
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I did visit Southern River Walk one more time and took a photo of the boatyard from across the North River Marsh at the St Marys boatramps. The image is that photo.