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Jul. 26th, 2023 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrottieGot blown off by the sail maker again. These guys are a bunch of hipsters so not taking it too personally but jeez this waffling creates a load on me. Every time I'm ready to give up on them, there's one exuberant exchange. Another sailmaker is a boomer who is also completely incapable of communication but in a very different way, and has an aol.com email address.
DMV again. I need to remember that things that Californians say are not commitments so much as vibes. No, getting my photo taken was not "then that's it". Nor was taking the written test "then that's it". Trying to speak vibe and hipster at the same time is hurting my brain. Everyone who works there loves it so much that they can't imagine that their customers wouldn't be exuberant to book followup appointment after followup appointment for oh yeah now ya just gotta do this. I'm sure this is a coping mechanism and I need to accept it. I just need to *remember* how this works.
Scrubbed the hull. Not popping up to the top like a cork is the hard part. Need some fins. And less neoprene than the shawty. Or a lee sandy beach.
More fiberglass on the port scupper. After reading about how hose (same stuff used for plumbing hot tubs) absorbs and transmits sewage odours just from having standing water with some nutrient in it and anaerobic bacteria taking over, I changed this one to an L adapter to run more directly to a hopefully soon future above-the-water-line thru-hull, which matches starboard. Starboard was run with an L adapter that let it bend sharply because that plumbing needed to tie in to the big bilge pump so that was a happy accident. Starboard had the old manual bilge pump above-the-waterline thru-hull. Port needs one still. Got fiberglass backing on the inside of that done earlier. Was trying to hose clamp a small section of hose between the scupper itself and the L adapter like starboard but couldn't get it to hold water so cut that off and just started fiberglassing the L adapter to the bottom of the cockpit earlier, then more layers earlier and testing it just now. Probably can't find a pool company to maintain the water chemistry in my sagging hoses so saggy hoses just have to go. Cockpit scuppers used to run straight downward in to big plastic seacocks screwed on to big plastic thru-hulls. Was always nervous about bumping them and one of the two seacocks didn't have room for the lever for it to be closed. Taking it apart, I very much confirmed that I was right to be nervous about touching them.
Only one connected scupper in the cockpit means that the cockpit can fill with water and overflow where it shouldn't. When that last happened, there were like five leaves that made it over to the port scupper (nearest tree is a hundred meters away) that completely clogged it. Constantly amazes me what does and does not hold water. And yeah, after a lot of work, I went from one functional scupper to one functional scupper.
Remembering my failure to register a trailer in NY. The intake lady in NY quickly come to recognize me and start screaming at me before I could even ask a question. CA is way more along my MN wavelength even if the vibes isn't compatible with the earnest. And I think vibes has been working against me.
Whole bunch of other stuff to fight too.
DMV again. I need to remember that things that Californians say are not commitments so much as vibes. No, getting my photo taken was not "then that's it". Nor was taking the written test "then that's it". Trying to speak vibe and hipster at the same time is hurting my brain. Everyone who works there loves it so much that they can't imagine that their customers wouldn't be exuberant to book followup appointment after followup appointment for oh yeah now ya just gotta do this. I'm sure this is a coping mechanism and I need to accept it. I just need to *remember* how this works.
Scrubbed the hull. Not popping up to the top like a cork is the hard part. Need some fins. And less neoprene than the shawty. Or a lee sandy beach.
More fiberglass on the port scupper. After reading about how hose (same stuff used for plumbing hot tubs) absorbs and transmits sewage odours just from having standing water with some nutrient in it and anaerobic bacteria taking over, I changed this one to an L adapter to run more directly to a hopefully soon future above-the-water-line thru-hull, which matches starboard. Starboard was run with an L adapter that let it bend sharply because that plumbing needed to tie in to the big bilge pump so that was a happy accident. Starboard had the old manual bilge pump above-the-waterline thru-hull. Port needs one still. Got fiberglass backing on the inside of that done earlier. Was trying to hose clamp a small section of hose between the scupper itself and the L adapter like starboard but couldn't get it to hold water so cut that off and just started fiberglassing the L adapter to the bottom of the cockpit earlier, then more layers earlier and testing it just now. Probably can't find a pool company to maintain the water chemistry in my sagging hoses so saggy hoses just have to go. Cockpit scuppers used to run straight downward in to big plastic seacocks screwed on to big plastic thru-hulls. Was always nervous about bumping them and one of the two seacocks didn't have room for the lever for it to be closed. Taking it apart, I very much confirmed that I was right to be nervous about touching them.
Only one connected scupper in the cockpit means that the cockpit can fill with water and overflow where it shouldn't. When that last happened, there were like five leaves that made it over to the port scupper (nearest tree is a hundred meters away) that completely clogged it. Constantly amazes me what does and does not hold water. And yeah, after a lot of work, I went from one functional scupper to one functional scupper.
Remembering my failure to register a trailer in NY. The intake lady in NY quickly come to recognize me and start screaming at me before I could even ask a question. CA is way more along my MN wavelength even if the vibes isn't compatible with the earnest. And I think vibes has been working against me.
Whole bunch of other stuff to fight too.
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Date: 2023-07-27 02:19 pm (UTC)