Name the ONE job !

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

Guest
There is always a job that ecah of us keeps putting off year after year !!

Mine is sorting out the mainsail reefing ...... it has reef points sewn in with small lines hanging, but no alternative tack or clew points to make the sail fast ...... bit silly really !! Considering also that this was put in by a Sail Training Skipper before I bought the boat !!! (In fact he also had a genny furling line that was about 1mtr too short !!!!)......... makes you wonder !!!


<hr width=100% size=1>Nigel ...
Bilge Keelers get up further ! I came - cos they said was FREE Guinness !
/forums/images/icons/cool.gif
 
Replacing the keelbolt under the engine.

This is because it will be done when I replace the engine, and I have been putting that off for years. There are people on this board who have thrown out and replaced engines a decade younger than mine!

The other eternally-put-off task - getting tools and stuff out of a saloon cupboard intended for food, restoring it to an hygenic condition, and putting the food in it, I actually DID, last weekend, after 8 years!

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
That reminds me ...

The rusty tools in the box .... in the stern locker that I keep meaning to dump !!! Ecah time I getbthem out - I think , well maybe a bit of cleaning up and ............ so they get put back for another year !!!
But the food locker used for other - yep I got one of those as well !!!!


<hr width=100% size=1>Nigel ...
Bilge Keelers get up further ! I came - cos they said was FREE Guinness !
/forums/images/icons/cool.gif
 
Repositioning the depth transducer - it is "glued" to the inside of the hull with a fairly substancial blob of silicon sealant. I really should mount it properly, but it's in the bottom of a locker half way down the quarter birth - doesn't seem to affect it though.

Jeff

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Getting the electrics to work properly, i.e. rewiring the boat. I only really have lights on the boat's battery, apart from the engine, but I struggle to get them all to work at the same time. Especially the ones up the mast.

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Took off 15 years of anti-fouling with a scraper earlier this year, 'forgot' to wear a face mask, surprised I'm still alive.

This year. Engine out and serviced.

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
can't put it off year after year, but I hate repacking sternglands! Especially on my boat, if you ever saw my arrangement you would understand.

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Painting the faded dark blue topsides .Starting to look shabby but for the last 2 or 3 years I have had the advantage of not worrying about the odd scuff and scrape as "we are repainting her this year".

I know that once its done it will take all the enjoyment away for a while ,cold sweats on coming alongside pontoons etc etc .

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
When I was Bosun/Mechanic on the STV Tectona it was the annual servicing of the heads. Never knew what you might find after having in the region of 500 MN cadets throughout the season.
Does anyone service their heads these days?

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
With women on board, mine get regulary serviced, why can't they follow simple instructions, like "dont put this or these down the toilet!" I've been telling the same women for three years and they do it everytime! As well as leaving the tap running whilst cleaning teeth. aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhh

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Teckers !!!!

Bloody hell ----- forgot all about her !!!!

I remember my time on her .......... did the West Country cruise as the MN cadets called it ..... Remember helming for the compass swing of the small island used as a Gun-range ..... can't recall the island name now ---- but what memories.

Did my Life-raft Survival training of her in Plymouth Sound - middle of March - jump off Tectona into the water - swim to raft - try to get in !!!! trouble was the Instructor forgot to put the floor pump in .... it was bloody cold and 'orrible !!!!

Names that come to mind ..... Nelson, McKelvie, Chiefy Tozer ..... Good Companions, James Street Vaults, Diamond Lils ........


<hr width=100% size=1>Nigel ...
Bilge Keelers get up further ! I came - cos they said was FREE Guinness !
/forums/images/icons/cool.gif
 
refit the stanchions !!! Original is only bolted to outside of toe-rail moulding ...... successive prats pushing / moving my boat when berthing and also different free-board heights of boats have pushed them in ......


<hr width=100% size=1>Nigel ...
Bilge Keelers get up further ! I came - cos they said was FREE Guinness !
/forums/images/icons/cool.gif
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page

Top