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Feb. 22nd, 2022 10:56 pmBack from Antioch. Wind direction and a small storm system coming through meant winds were bouncing between very light and howling. I got rained on a little. Encountered a large ship at exactly the same horseshoe bend as the last time I came back this way.
Was thinking of going further, but Amtrak straight to EMY was an adequate substitute and something I'd do again. I also just lost my nerve on account of my old chainplates. Stainless steel is typically good for 10 years, then all bets are off. Crevice corrosion eats it from the inside out, like blue cheese. Before the trip, I started trying to take a better look at them without actually pulling them out (partially for the work involved and partially because I didn't want to de-tune the rig without getting wire tension readings with a gauge first, creating a larger project) but looking at them, I decided that the uppers/outer ones were older than the inner/lowers and there's evidence of corrosion, so I'm glad with succeeding in sneaking in one trip. I visited Lira's Welding in Rio Vista before I left and found exactly one person there who isn't in charge, then started playing phone tag with them, exactly like the last time I had them do work, so I need to try to go by again and catch people in. All the chainplates are probably way beyond 10 years old. Ordered a wire tension thingie.
Old dude said Ladd's boat yard got bought and no longer does DIY but an ad in Latitude 38 magazine says the yard at Vallejo does.
Work piled up from just visiting CSC and today so now I'm digging myself out again.
Was thinking of going further, but Amtrak straight to EMY was an adequate substitute and something I'd do again. I also just lost my nerve on account of my old chainplates. Stainless steel is typically good for 10 years, then all bets are off. Crevice corrosion eats it from the inside out, like blue cheese. Before the trip, I started trying to take a better look at them without actually pulling them out (partially for the work involved and partially because I didn't want to de-tune the rig without getting wire tension readings with a gauge first, creating a larger project) but looking at them, I decided that the uppers/outer ones were older than the inner/lowers and there's evidence of corrosion, so I'm glad with succeeding in sneaking in one trip. I visited Lira's Welding in Rio Vista before I left and found exactly one person there who isn't in charge, then started playing phone tag with them, exactly like the last time I had them do work, so I need to try to go by again and catch people in. All the chainplates are probably way beyond 10 years old. Ordered a wire tension thingie.
Old dude said Ladd's boat yard got bought and no longer does DIY but an ad in Latitude 38 magazine says the yard at Vallejo does.
Work piled up from just visiting CSC and today so now I'm digging myself out again.
