Oxnard - Day 31 & 32

It was overall a slow week-end on the boat-getting-ready-forever-on-the-hard-in-the-yard-thinghy.
But, it is mostly because the boat is -slowly- but - steadily - getting closer and closer to be ready :)
Let's go through a quick illustrated round of the events.

Cleaning the old charts, I found those pilots charts from 1977.
Classy.

Hawaii !

Granted, a very nice sunset.

First splicing project. Got the tools.

Granted, it is not as pretty as it should be.
But it will be strong enough :)

Sink project - while I am at it...

Another Mast climbing.
This time I added a second safety.

It was to catch back the flag line on the spreader.
And be able to send up the radar deflector.

Really hate those holes.
But no choice.

Ugly, but strong.
As strong as the stanchion at least.

To celebrate the finalization of the galley installation,
a hot meal I did not cooked.

 Obviously, the galley and propane systems are far from ideal. Actually, I learned a bunch about how to do a proper installation to eventually ... not do a proper installation.

The key points is, first you need a gimballed galley , which is worth more than 1000$ and a full propane plumbing system, including a vented lazarette to put your tanks on. In any case, this is a lot of work when the boat as not been setup initially for it at all.

The big issue with the actual system, which is a camping gaz burner, is that we use high pressure propane all the way from the bottle to the burner. Typically, you will have a regulator and solenoid at the bottle, then the rest of the pipe system is low pressure, which limits the danger of leak and .. explosion :)

In short, you should not use camping gaz equipment, inside but outside.

Make sense.

However, for the trip, we will be extra careful to close and open the bottle every time we use it, and be sure to empty the hose by burning the remaining of the propane inside.

In any case, this is only temporary and will have to be on the first list of things that need to be revamped asap.

Cool, I am not there yet, and I have already things to do !