The good is that we completed fixing the liferaft in place, the bad is problems we are having with the pump for the fridge/freezer and the ugly is the problems we are having redesigning the fitting for the new motor, having realised our original idea wouldn't work! We had hoped to use a couple of pieces of angle iron and weld to the end a plate for the motor, but today realised that the hull gets in the way of the extended angle iron.
The liferaft though is really good. I am very pleased with the mounting of that. Of course, I thought it might be an hour or an hour and a half, but in fact took the whole morning. There are six bolts (created out of threaded rod) holding it in place. four were easy, two were not. One of the two difficult was due to coming through at the edge of the heads compartment. The other one was the inside corner of the heads and was exceedingly difficult and fiddly to get to the nut on the end of the threaded rod.
The pump for the fridge freezer seems under powered and doesn't self prime. Not happy with that. We will have to re-look at that tomorrow. Maybe try another pump.
Oh... and Daniel and Jacob did some whippings so the kicking strap for the main sail and the sheet for the mizzen sail should now work.
I keep hoping for news about the new motor and the new generator. The saying is 'no news is good news' but I am not so sure. I would really like the new motor to be in before the end of the month.
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