More Photos of Yard Work

 

I mentioned in the Blog that I had installed a cable clam to weatherproof the passing of the yard AC to below the cockpit and attaching to our AC charger. This is the cable clam and wire.

The Lazy Bag stores and protects the huge main sail. The upper and opening edges of the bag are held rigidly by fiberglass poles. The 4 shorter pole sections are locked together by aluminum tubes. Through the many years ours have gotten lost or gone overboard so we had a local Anchorage machine shop fabricate these. They fit perfectly!  

Our friend, Richard, in his natural habitat, his shope made from a connex. He's Canadian but applying for US citizenship.

Lovely Conni is testing our ship's wheel, after a 2-year lapse.

Lovley Conni illustrates the narrow space between Wings at right and the adjoining vessel. I must keep my chest off the ladder in ascent or descent.

This is the bungalow kitchen. It's completley open air. There's no door! It's nice but unpleasant in bad weather.

When I said, "no door", I meant NO DOOR! When the wind blows from that direction, we're pummeled.

A kitchen still life with treasures from the new Carrefour (all but one). At right is a bottle of Bombay Sapphire for G&Ts purchased at the Duty Free store. Left is a bag of black, Greek olives, then canned tuna, Italian pesto (very good), Conni's can of Cassoulet de Canard (she's an addict), and last, a bottle of "we can't get it in the US" Amer Picon, prime ingredient for several cocktails.

This is the hole in the deck through which the starboard fuel tank filler fitting went. It was a job to remove the fitting to expose this. The yellow arrow, if you can see it, shows where the teak decking ends and the fiberglass deck begins. We think, we hope, that this is the source of the major leak. We lined the sides of the hole with good caulk and on the sides of the fitting, to stop the leak.

This is the fuel fitting that we've mentioned. After removing it, we see the badly stained side which is not on the other faces of the fitting. This is the side that leaked! The gooey grey stuff is butyl tape, very difficult to remove.

After an hour of using acetone, a steel wire brush, a brass brush on my drill, and a putty knife, the fitting is clean enough to start reassembly.

For the grand opening of the new Carrefour store in Uturoa, they pulled out the stops with lovely decorations everywhere.

Lovely Conni drools on the glass doors of the meat aisle. You name it, they had it.

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