Launched. Here's the recap...

Day 8

1. Ascend mast and reattach wind instrument. Test instruments. They seem to work. Here's a picture of the strip-chart recorder on the left showing a few minutes of wind direction and speet. On the right is the wind rose that shows the boat "direction" arrow (we're on the hard!), at the 7 o'clock position are "T" and "A" arrows showing the true and apparent wind angles. Plus the true wind speed at the moment.

   

2. Rig some fenders

3. Rig dinghy. There's a slow leak which I haven't addressed. Mostly it was inflate and lash down on the foredeck.
4. Rig anchors -- after fixing the bowsprit.
5. Start rigging dock lines. This is complicated because Safe Cove has massive concrete anchor blocks in the yard, with massive webbing straps that go to our cleats. We can prep the lines, but we can't bend them onto any cleats yet.

Day 9

1. Commission nature’s head. Add coir. Replace biscuit fan.
2. Start engine for the first time in months and months. I bleed air from the fuel line. It took 3 long cranks. While it wasn't too cold, the Lehman excess fuel device was required to get things going. Ran it for 30 seconds and shut it down.
3. Check running rigging.
4. Try to straighten out fuel vent to eliminate the low spot.
5. Get some consumables (cable ties, two-sided tape, mast boot tape, etc.)

Day 10 — sailing with friends

Did no real work.

Day 11

1. Start the engine again to be sure it stayed primed. It did.
2. Replace fuel filter. Drain and sort-of rinse. It's a Racor twin-500 assembly. The water-separation bowl needs to be disassembled and cleaned. The filter was pristine. It's the filter assembly that looks sketchy.
3. Remove window covers. CA made snap-on fabric covers to keep the blazing sun out of the interior. Time for them to go and get washed.
4. Replace zinc fish

Day 12 — launch

1. Finally rig dock lines and fenders now that the anchor straps are off.

2. Stow the power cable and ladder.

   

Mr. Lehman fired immediately (using the cold start excess fuel device). I didn't provide enough throttle, and he died. Fired again right away and ran for almost 1 ½ hrs charging batteries until I shut it off.

Fuel flow problems solved? Don't rightly know. But. Things sure behaved nicely.

At dock...

1. Wash interior
2. Start moving aboard

We have a ton to do. Wash the cockpit and wash the deck are up next. Fill the water tanks (and dose with a little chlorine.) Test the VHF. Install the cellular phone booster.

The tides will make it difficult to get through the lock for the next week or so. We'll stay at the dock until maybe Sunday, 15 Dec. Then, we'll likely hang around in the lake until at least the 18th or 19th, when the tides are not so dramatic as they are under the full moon on the 15th. The 22nd has a low at 3PM and a high at 9PM. We can slip out of the lock late in the day with a rising tide to help us over any bumps.

Day 13 -- At Dock

1. Try to pump residual water from deep bilge. This wasn't successful. Read on.
2. Clean cockpit.
3. Continue moving aboard. Tomorrow we leave the rental house and move aboard.
4. Replace primary fuel filter and rinse filter bowl. This is big and messy job. Tomorrow, I can test-run the engine to see how well things are going.