I went down at 8:30 before work and put a second layer of the laquer paint on the for'ard cabin. It covered well, but not perfectly, was a pain because the hairs kept coming out of the brush. I think we might have hair problems because the cleaning solvent 'melts' the glue holding the hairs in the brush... not sure, but when it happens it's a total pain!
Anyway, I now think we have done all the painting for this year. The cabins are serviceable, albeit not luxury. Next lift out we'll do some concentrated work on upgrading the cabins.
At lunch time we went looking for some gear wheels. We need to attach a 2:1 ratio gear set to the morse control to work the potentiometer for the electric drive. Tim had a brainwave over night - remote control model car gear wheels. We went to the specialist remote control model shop in Larnaca and found exactly what we need. I'm not sure the shop owner really understood us, partly because of his English and our lack of Greek and partly because we are not building a remote control model car, but a full size yacht!
On the way home from work we put some new chunky wheels on the gangplank. Although the wheels looked great, one had already broken. We'll see how these fare.
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