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scrottieWas going to go hang at Cal Sailing... but I woke up to a massive cloud burst a bit before the alarm was set and turned it off. The alarm, not the cloud burst. That was in the middle of a sustained hard rain. So I guess I should get work done today and try again next week. Problem with starting to do anything fun while in middle of grinding is my mind then very much gives up on trying to grind.
I'd put covered one of the portlights in Gorilla Tape brand duct tape (McMaster sells this as "high tack duct tape" and I love how they unbrand things and just pick something that's at least reasonable quality and probably better) before I took off last time after finding it dripping yet again right before leaving and not being able to deal with it. The glazing in the framing had gone so I tried re-doing that with silicone, but I did a kind of terrible job and wound up with a lot of large air bubbles in there (I tried to really fill it up and then slide the plastic in to the aluminium framing so I'm miffed about how I failed so badly). So now I don't know if the bad window glazing job is leaking or the bedding of the frame to the hull that's leaking. And the aluminium frame has holes eaten in it all from saltwater. So I guess my current plan is to pull it out, trace the hole, have either one or four custom (there are four this size tho the openings may vary slightly) new ones made, and then just keep a bunch of duct tape over the hole in the mean time. At least this tape comes in colors so I can match the hull so it's not screamingly obvious at a million paces. So while I've been getting buckets dumped from the sky, we're staying dry, minus the small annoyance of driving wind splattering rain drops some times in just a perfect way that the splatter makes it bounce off of trim designed to stop normal splashes and rain. And condensation dripping from the extreme humidity.
Edit:
Oh yeah. One of the two bus systems up, the Solano County one (Rio Vista, Vallejo, etc... stuff west of me and still north of the river delta), still has its route 52, which goes up from Antioch (closest part of mainland served by the BART Bay Area light rail) listed on its schedule: https://www.riovistacity.com/sites/default/files/fileattachments/delta_breeze_transit_system/page/2577/schedule.pdf . I checked the schedule. I checked the site for news. No news. Route 52 is on the schedule. Route 52 does not exist any more. That's a huge pain because strategies for making it in to mainland and making it back up here again in the same day revolve around being able to get there relatively quickly and it leaving at a relatively late 6pm. The other route takes hours to traverse. If I were king, failing to update transit info with changes and leaving even one rider stranded would result in the immediate termination and public humiliation of the mayor. People get cranky about their trash not being picked up. Have they ever *themselves* not been picked up, I have to wonder. Rio Vista now has one bus route left. Sacramento, the wrong direction for the sailing club and also a long, slow slog with multi-hour layovers, still has a bus that comes a few times a day. Neither run late or on weekends.
I'd put covered one of the portlights in Gorilla Tape brand duct tape (McMaster sells this as "high tack duct tape" and I love how they unbrand things and just pick something that's at least reasonable quality and probably better) before I took off last time after finding it dripping yet again right before leaving and not being able to deal with it. The glazing in the framing had gone so I tried re-doing that with silicone, but I did a kind of terrible job and wound up with a lot of large air bubbles in there (I tried to really fill it up and then slide the plastic in to the aluminium framing so I'm miffed about how I failed so badly). So now I don't know if the bad window glazing job is leaking or the bedding of the frame to the hull that's leaking. And the aluminium frame has holes eaten in it all from saltwater. So I guess my current plan is to pull it out, trace the hole, have either one or four custom (there are four this size tho the openings may vary slightly) new ones made, and then just keep a bunch of duct tape over the hole in the mean time. At least this tape comes in colors so I can match the hull so it's not screamingly obvious at a million paces. So while I've been getting buckets dumped from the sky, we're staying dry, minus the small annoyance of driving wind splattering rain drops some times in just a perfect way that the splatter makes it bounce off of trim designed to stop normal splashes and rain. And condensation dripping from the extreme humidity.
Edit:
Oh yeah. One of the two bus systems up, the Solano County one (Rio Vista, Vallejo, etc... stuff west of me and still north of the river delta), still has its route 52, which goes up from Antioch (closest part of mainland served by the BART Bay Area light rail) listed on its schedule: https://www.riovistacity.com/sites/default/files/fileattachments/delta_breeze_transit_system/page/2577/schedule.pdf . I checked the schedule. I checked the site for news. No news. Route 52 is on the schedule. Route 52 does not exist any more. That's a huge pain because strategies for making it in to mainland and making it back up here again in the same day revolve around being able to get there relatively quickly and it leaving at a relatively late 6pm. The other route takes hours to traverse. If I were king, failing to update transit info with changes and leaving even one rider stranded would result in the immediate termination and public humiliation of the mayor. People get cranky about their trash not being picked up. Have they ever *themselves* not been picked up, I have to wonder. Rio Vista now has one bus route left. Sacramento, the wrong direction for the sailing club and also a long, slow slog with multi-hour layovers, still has a bus that comes a few times a day. Neither run late or on weekends.
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Date: 2024-03-02 10:41 pm (UTC)