Re-propped, Re-aligned and Resigned to wait...

A warmer night with temps barely dipping below double figures but still the early starts with a rattle below before 8 am signifying the arrival of Marty from JB's to re-fit the cutlass bearing and drill a larger hole for the new inlet valve. Reassuring to see the hull is nearly 25mm thick along the centre - and solid fibreglass with no filler or foam!  




Bit of fiddling to get the new brass cutlass bearing in and then discover that the engine alignment was 'out', perhaps causing some of our alignment issues.  All good by lunchtime and I was able to re-coat the prop and shaft with "Prop-One" - an alternative to the more expensive and patently useless "Prop-Speed" which became the barnacles 'food-of-choice' this past summer... we shall see!




Unfortunately the painting meant that I couldn't 'splash' back into the water until tomorrow - best to make sure it is properly dry.

Lovely afternoon and decided to walk over to the Marina and retrieve 'Karuna' the tender for a row on a windless estuary.  Checked the mooring out - lots of slime! and then rowed back to the hardstand, lifted the dinghy out and hoisted it onto the deck. 

 The plan is to get back in the water tomorrow and keep going out into the Bay overnight, with a NE predicted Wed afternoon to blow me home... clean up Thursday (rain and 35 kts) and up early Friday morning for the 0815 bus south...

The Marina extension is on track with new berths being ready before the end of the year...lots of mud and sludge as the excavate and deepen, dumping the excess into the reclaimed hard area.