Projects

Always small projects being whittled away at on the boat. Things like getting all the fans working (i.e. not squealing or vibrating), sealing a leaky skylight, and repairing a broken drawer. Also a few that are slightly more important. One of our lifeline stanchions nearly pulled right out of the boat so we drilled out the holes, epoxy filled them, and rebid the stanchion. Also discovered that our stanchions at the back of the boat were pulling out as well. These were screwed in right above the cockpit lockers, making it easy enough repair to by simply thru-bolting them instead. Sturdy as can be now.

Then today I finally began the process of repairing something that should have been done long ago—the tachometer. It hasn’t worked since day one on this boat and frankly I never much missed it. Until this last passage that is. When coming over from Mazatlan we seemed to burn way more fuel than I anticipated, and all I could determine was that I was running the engine at to high an RPM. I confirmed this when we motored north up and around the corner at a bit lower speed and burned far less. Anyway, all I accomplished today was to track down where the sending wire went after leaving the tachometer. At least I think I followed the right wire (it’s not always easy on this old boat). After winding its way through the boat it ended up here. And I don’t have a clue what that thing is. Anybody out there want to fill me in? I had expected to find a wire that ran somewhere in the neighborhood of the alternator, probably lying disconnected. Not to some random little piece on the opposite side of the engine.