Since there is no snow down at the club, David and I decided to go down and fix a couple of things on Arioso that went bad at the end of the season.
The fuel gauge had started showing empty even when there was lots of fuel in the tank. I was pretty sure that something had happened to the fuel sender since the wiring all looked OK, and the gauge would twitch up a bit when power was applied to the instrument panel. I removed the sender and found that the rod holding the float had shifted up and was binding against the top of the plastic moulding. I pulled this back down and placed a little epoxy putty on the rod to prevent it from shifting up again.
While I was at it I took the opportunity to examine the inside of the tank. I was afraid it would be full of all kind of junk, but it was surprisingly clean!
The next job was to replace the padeye on the boom that had broken during the gale at the end of last season. The plate on the old one was threaded and that padeye had been installed from inside the boom. The new padeye that I found was not threaded and the eye was somewhat smaller. The plate from the old padeye was inserted into the boom and used as a backing plate, and the new one attached from the outside putting the screws into the internal threaded stainless steel backing plate. In order to do this I had to drill out the eyes on the new padeye a bit, and Red brought down the 3/8" drill bit I needed. We used the drill press in the shop. It was finicky work using a piece of small stuff and some tape to position the backing plate so that we could screw down the new padeye, but we eventually go it done.l This should be plenty strong.
Time will tell. It turned out that the shackle would not pass through the smaller eye on the padeye, and so we took it to the shop and ground it down just a little.
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1430-1630HRS Work done by: Eric, David and Red I ariived at the club and Arioso had been pressure washed. I drained Arioso's engine block (3 plugs), water pump (1 plug) and muffler (1 plug). We then winterized the engine with 70/30 Antifreeze mix (g
HRS Work done by : Eric & David Weather much better this morning. David and I went out to Arioso when it was time. I removed the speed transduer and replaced it with the the blank. We motored around in the gap until it was Arioso's turn.She came
0700-1000HRS Work done by: Eric Arioso was supposed to haul out today. I arrived at 6:00AM and assembled the cradle and inserted the pads. However it was blowing up to ENE@40 kts and the Western gap was pretty rough. The smart decision was made that
1500-1900HRS Work done by: Eric, Terry, David, Michael and Red When I got to the boat, I brought her to the wall and did the last few jobs prepratory to pulling the mast: Replaced the pin on the gennaker halyard snap shackle. It had popped out on Tu
1500-1900HRS Work done by: Eric, Michael & David Michael, Daivd and I went down to the boat today to prep for pulling the mast and getting th boat out of the water. We: Pumped out the holding tank. Emptied the Fresh water tank. Took off the main
1700-1930HRS Onboard: Eric, David & Michael Great sailing! Wind W@15-33kts. A gale had passed through earlier in the day and left turbulent conditions in its wake. I put up the no.3 jib for the first time this year and we were still going over 6
1430-1900HRS Onboard: Eric & David On my way down to the club, I stopped at West Marine and returned the bilge pump float switch that I did not need. I went down to Arioso to do a little gale recovery work. I managed to remove the other part of
0800-2000HRS Onboard: Eric, Terry & David We decided to make one more trip across the lake this season and set out for Port Dalhousie. The wind started out E@12kts, but quickly veered to S@15-20kts. This put the wind right on our nose with no go
1430-2000HRS Onboard: Eric, David & Michael I got down to the boat, took her out under power and checked out Otto. He had appeared to act up last trip out. Everything seems fine. I adjusted the parameters a bit. Rudder response from 5 to 8, Auto
14:30-20:30HRS Onboard: Eric & Michael The bilge pump float switch has been acting up. I had asked Timon to pick up a new one from Genco last week which he did. In order to get to the wiring connections, I had to remove the port section of cabin
Work done by : Michael Michael (who was born in the Soviet Union) has donated a Soviet Union courtesy flag for Arioso! Tonight we will fly it when we go sailing. [Image:IMGP5014.jpg] <!--WEBBOT bot="HTMLMarkup" startspan ALT="
Work done by: Terry, Timon, Michael & Jon Terry, Jon, Michael and Timon got together and bought an excellent pair of Tahiti marine binoculars as a gift for for the boat. This was of course completely unnecessary, but very much appreciated! Thank
1630-2015HRSHRS Onboard: Eric, Terry, Michael and Jon I arrived a the club and repaired Oarioso's oar with the broken oar lock, and rowed out to Arioso. The wind was blowing E@20 kts in the basin. The crew arrived and we set out. It was great saili
1245-2300HRS Onboard: Eric & David The weather in the morning was bad so we got a late start. The day turned out beautiful. Wind W@16-24kts. We did some kite photography in 20knot plus winds with the main double reefed and a few wraps on the ge
1630-2100HRS Onboard: Eric, Terry, Timon, Tom, Michael & Sabina Winds E@8-10kts. A beautiful evening! Before the crew arrived, Red called me over to a C&C 30 called Jillimar which was having engine trouble. Just then the guys arrived, and T
HRS Onboard: Eric, Ian and Frank from NZ Sheila's parents have firends from NZ visiting, and it was a pleasure to take Frank for a tour around the Islands. Sheila's mother stayed at our house with Helen to babysit our new puppy, but hopefully we wil
