No more varnishing of the rubbing strip. I put on coat 5 today. I was going to put one more coat on tomorrow, but it's getting no better. I think the delay between the first two coats and the next three meant it didn't take properly. It looks OK, but not perfect sadly.
I put a second coat on the for'ard heads door. Now that did look great. I am pleased the way that is going.
Final task of the day (well afternoon and evening) was to get the generator electrics complete. It is... almost... just have to connect it to the auto-switch.
The electric drive has not arrived and I had an email this morning saying there would be a further 10 days to 2 weeks delay on it being ready.
About 18 years ago I was waiting in Lagos airport to fly to Côte d'Ivoire. Lagos airport is interesting. At that stage US airports displayed a list of airports that 'didn't reach international security and safety standards' and there was only one airport on the list... Lagos International airport! Anyhow we had a 5 hour delay and it was stifling; the air conditioning kept going on and off. One passenger remarked that the control tower was on the same electric feed and the control tower lost power whenever we did.
Over the tannoy, when we did actually have electricity, they announced a 'further one hour delay on the flight to London'. There was a near riot in the neighbouring waiting area. One of the other passengers went to investigate. The reason was this was the 26th 'further one hour delay' on the flight to London.
I feel the same about the electric drive. It should have been here around the 11/12th May. It's now the 15th June. It's 5 weeks late on a 2 week delivery schedule and they just emailed a 'further 2 week delay'.
To say I am unimpressed would be an understatement; I feel like rioting. We have friends coming out on Sunday for a week... to go sailing. We can sail in the Wayfarer but not the Nicholson and the reason is the total inefficiency of the electric drive supplier.
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