Work continues on the boat - we are almost done, so went ahead and scheduled launching for Friday the 25th.
This week was more polishing on the hull early in the week for Dean. He also added reflective tape to the rub rail as well.
Kris worked on doing some touch up painting on the boom, where we had some scratches, and installing the zincs and props on the sail drives. We also switched the props, as Kris had messed up 2 years ago and put the port prop on the starboard side, and the starboard prop on the port side. This haul out, we switched them back, which also meant switching the controls back as well.
Tuesday, we headed into town on a scheduled Maxi taxi trip to Pricesmart - which is kind of like a mini Costco. Good trip, other than the torrential rain when we went to unload the groceries.
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The yellow stripe vans are the Maxi Taxis - they run like a bus on a regular route, but irregular schedule |
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Putting away the stuff - $500 USD in groceries |
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Bought 10 lbs of Mozzarella cheese for our Friday pizza nights - back at boat, repacked them into 1/2 pound packages and used the seal a meal before putting the cheese in the freezer. |
The first week we were back from Idaho we had a great week with little rain, but this last week it seems to rain starting around 1:00 every day, so we get up early, do projects in the morning, shower before lunch, then mostly inside the rest of the day. When it rains - it really rains.
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Rain coming down |
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We have a small ditch behind the boat for water runoff - it overflows during the hard rain. |
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Same ditch after the rain stops. |
Another project was our anchor roller. It was looking rusty, so we took it off and polished up the metal. There are 8 stainless all threads that go through the bow, with 4 of them holding on the anchor roller. We were not going to take them off if we could get the nuts off - but we could not. Broke one of them, so had to buy some more all thread and replaced 4 of the 8, with new nuts on all.
We worked on polishing up the anchor roller, and sanded the roller a bit to make it roll easier, as after we took it apart, it was obvious that the bolt was rolling more than the roller.
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Kris polishing the anchor roller |
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You can see the plate the anchor roller bolts to, all polished up ready for new bolts |
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Our new all thread next to the old stuff. Glad the old did not look that bad. |
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The bolt that holds the nylon roller on the anchor roller, you can see how grooved it is from spinning. It should not spin, the roller should spin on it instead. |
Kris wanted to also take off our Wasi Ball swivel from the anchor, just to check everything out. Could not get it off, as a couple Allen screws were corroded tight. Kris did not trust it if she could not check it, so we drilled out the screws, and took it to the machine shop on site. They cleaned it up, and tapped it for new screws. Cost us $35.
We had taken the sails off when we left the boat, so we worked on getting those back on. We replaced the bolts and nuts that hold the battens on, and Kris sewed up a couple spots where the battens had worn holes in the fabric that holds them in.
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Sewing up the jib batten pockets |
On Thursday, we went out to dinner with Bruce and Sandra on Namid. Namid is a Manta 42 as well. They are at the dock, and will be hauling out next week. Had a great night visiting with them.
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Pizza dinner with Sandra and Bruce on Namid. |
On Saturday we went with Phil off Antevasin, a Fontaine Pajot catamaran on the hard next to us, and his mom Jill to the Saturday Fresh Market. Jill was born in Trinidad, and Phil was very familiar with the area, and had his aunts' car to use while he was here, so we were quite lucky to get an invitation to go with them. Had a good time seeing the sights on the way there, and walking the markets.
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Surprised to see a lot of apples imported from Washington at the market |
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Not only food, but clothes as well |
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Mostly food though. Most locally grown and quite cheaply priced |
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Spices were also available |
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Indoor open air meat market was next to the produce sections |
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In case you could not tell what meat it was, just check out the feet, and skin from the head of the cow. |
We have to touch up the paint on the boom a bit more. We get a coat of dirt on the boat most days here in the boatyard from general dust in the air, and have black streaks down the side of the boat from it, so Dean will buff those out right before we go in the water, as well as putting bottom paint on the bottoms of the rudders. Tomorrow we head to town for more groceries, and to look into a local sim card for the phone.