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Dec. 17th, 2022 10:15 pmR reports that the change of address to address-and-one-half is succeeding in pulling mail back in. One book (bundle of three fantasy novels, as it be) got stuck in a routing loop and probably won't make it. Still, going to try to chill on anything unnecessary till well after the holiday rush and holiday rush recovery period.
Busy day. Pumped out (dish water and holding tank treatment only but given enough time, anything rots and part of the idea with doing a super flush on the holding tank is to get ready to pull it out in favor of a portable head). That's a chance to let the stinky diesel run a bit and running some injector cleaner through it to maybe make it a little bit less stinky. Hung the kayak up facing away from weather. Took the bike apart and packed it up neatly. Re-tensioned the rig to something resembling what it was after I had a rigging professional redo it, but there are always tweaks to keep the mast approximately in column, so the uppers and lowers are pushing/pulling slightly differently. Work request. Taped over the cockpit locker that takes in water for lack of other drainage (adding that drainage was a thing I was hoping to get to). Lots of clean up, on and below deck. Took down the babby jib. Yesterday afternoon was making little fiberglass loafs around the second set of chainplates. It was dark when I finished.
Monkeyed halyards. Ideally this is done well in advance so that if some line finds a creative way to start slapping against the mast or a spreader or just starts oscillating too much, you get another try. The only tie down points forward are the bow pulpit (chrome rail thing you lean against while pulling down a jib while underway), which isn't that sturdy, or the sole deck cleat, which is quite busy with dock lines. Only slightly forward of the aft are the last stantion bases with extra little lugs in them. Compromise was to run the forward parts of lines to not far from the mast but monkey them to the bow pulpit, with a line running from the bow pulpit to each halyard to pull the halyard away from the mast. Last time, I took the approach of wrapping lines around rigging then the mast like lights around a Christmas tree, but that took some work to get right since that's hard to tension. This is a fussy thing I fuss with. Leaving halyards slapping in the wind is a huge faux pas.
Still waffling on taking the bike. If I don't take it, then in the future, it's either a Lyft out of the Sacramento area or walking hours with my luggage from the last bus stop. If I do take it, then the airlines will break things and I'm trying to carry all this.
Breakfast will be five carrots, each wrapped in its own of five tortillas.
Busy day. Pumped out (dish water and holding tank treatment only but given enough time, anything rots and part of the idea with doing a super flush on the holding tank is to get ready to pull it out in favor of a portable head). That's a chance to let the stinky diesel run a bit and running some injector cleaner through it to maybe make it a little bit less stinky. Hung the kayak up facing away from weather. Took the bike apart and packed it up neatly. Re-tensioned the rig to something resembling what it was after I had a rigging professional redo it, but there are always tweaks to keep the mast approximately in column, so the uppers and lowers are pushing/pulling slightly differently. Work request. Taped over the cockpit locker that takes in water for lack of other drainage (adding that drainage was a thing I was hoping to get to). Lots of clean up, on and below deck. Took down the babby jib. Yesterday afternoon was making little fiberglass loafs around the second set of chainplates. It was dark when I finished.
Monkeyed halyards. Ideally this is done well in advance so that if some line finds a creative way to start slapping against the mast or a spreader or just starts oscillating too much, you get another try. The only tie down points forward are the bow pulpit (chrome rail thing you lean against while pulling down a jib while underway), which isn't that sturdy, or the sole deck cleat, which is quite busy with dock lines. Only slightly forward of the aft are the last stantion bases with extra little lugs in them. Compromise was to run the forward parts of lines to not far from the mast but monkey them to the bow pulpit, with a line running from the bow pulpit to each halyard to pull the halyard away from the mast. Last time, I took the approach of wrapping lines around rigging then the mast like lights around a Christmas tree, but that took some work to get right since that's hard to tension. This is a fussy thing I fuss with. Leaving halyards slapping in the wind is a huge faux pas.
Still waffling on taking the bike. If I don't take it, then in the future, it's either a Lyft out of the Sacramento area or walking hours with my luggage from the last bus stop. If I do take it, then the airlines will break things and I'm trying to carry all this.
Breakfast will be five carrots, each wrapped in its own of five tortillas.
