We have spent most of June and July doing
maintenance and repairs. We had hoped to
have everything complete by the end of June but... things took longer than expected.
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| The fog rolling in over the Sausalito hills |
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| The Schoonmaker Point Beach |
Here is a high level list of the maintenance and repairs we completed:
Maintenance and Repairs 2-June thru 16-July 2016
- Repaired crack in hot water supply elbow, port head
- Pulled all injectors off main, sent to shop for
testing, cleaned and re-installed
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| Main engine - injectors removed, hoses staged for replacement |
- Changed out all hoses, main and GGH
- Inspected oil cooler, heat exchanger and charge air
cooler with boroscope
- Repaired / replaced seawater cooling stainless steel
pipe
- Removed potwater pressure system bladder, cleaned and
remounted
- Cleaned fresh water tank
- Cleaned hull and checked hull anodes
- Repaired KVH sat-system modem
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| Trouble-shooting KVH (sat system) |
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| Re-installing KVH (sat system) modem after repair |
- Replaced antifreeze in both engines
- Replaced propulsion, genset and stabilizer cooling pump impellers
- Repaired GGH fault with control power to starter
- Replaced negative earth relay in GGH
- Changed all seawater cooling piping gaskets from
paper to neoprene duro 70
- Rebuilt seawater pumps for shelf spares
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| Rebuilding seawater pumps |
- Repainted and re-stenciled life ring buoys
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| Louise and B repainting life ring buoys |
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| Life ring buoy re-stenciled and ready to install |
- Cleaned and repainted frig/freezer skid
- Replaced freezer pump
- Replaced frig voltage reducer
- Changed bulbs in engine control panels
- Repaired audible engine alarms
- Changed anchor chain shackles, starboard anchor
- Took off stern light and cleaned up corrosion where
cable gland entered bulk head
- Routed wires from proposed water maker back to lazarette
for hookah system
- Inspected and lubricated windlass
- Replaced windlass toggle switch
- Cleaned turbo on main
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| Turbo on the main engine |
- Stocked ditch bag
- Inspected and stowed survival suits
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| B and Louise trying on survival suits |
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| B suited up |
- Changed smoke alarm batteries
- Performed Coast Guard safety inspection
- Fresh water rinsed and re-tied mooring lines
- Replaced flag halyards
We use a spreadsheet to keep track of
required maintenance tasks. Tasks are
organized by operating system and intervals are based either on time or engine
hours since the task was last completed.
We typically do a look-ahead at the first of each month. The look-ahead is based on a time interval of one month, one hundred main engine hours and fifty GGH
(generator get home engine) hours . Here is a sample excerpt showing some of the tasks
we completed during May, June and July for the main engine and the windlass:
In this excerpt, you can see that intervals for the
main engine tasks are based on either engine hours or time durations, whichever
comes first. The windlass task intervals
are only time based. You can also see
that although we recently completed these tasks, because of the interval, some
will show up again in our July look-ahead.
Most of the tasks listed are based on the manufacturer’s
recommendations, although some are based on our experience.
Of course, it wasn’t all work. We managed to fit in a few fun things
including:
· Hiking Muir Woods and Muir Beach
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| Muir Woods |
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| Muir Woods |
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| Muir Woods |
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| Overlooking Muir Beach |
· Walking at Stinson Beach and driving the Panoramic
Highway near Mount Tamalpais
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| View of the Pacific Ocean from the Panoramic Highway |
· Visiting with friends
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| Sara, Nathan and Mary arriving for Sunday brunch |
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| Anthony, Rosie and Midori visiting for sunset cocktails |
· Visiting family in Colusa and shooting off fireworks
for 4th of July
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| 4th of July fireworks at Kevin's house in Colusa |
· Riding the ferry in to San Francisco, eating lunch
in North Beach, walking up to Coit Tower, touring Fisherman’s Wharf and Pier
39, visiting the Museum of Modern Art
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| The Golden Gate Bridge |
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| Irish Coffee at the Buena Vista in SF |
· Kayaking
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| Seals and birds soaking up the sun |
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"Royono" The wooden sailboat at the end of our dock.
JFK and his family used to sail on this boat and rumor has it
that he was also on it with Marilyn Monroe. |
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| Heron on the dock |
We are ready to continue our journey north. We’re just waiting for a good weather window.
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| B returning from a provisioning trip |
