Port Carmen, Cebu
Philippines
Sorry that last weeks edition contained no photos. I am not sure why but we have not been able to ever upload videos to Google +. I kept trying and then never got around to adding the stills. They will be included at the end today.
Monday Lloyd was supposed to be here to wash the boat. He evidently had to much fun at the fiesta yesterday was hungover and unable to work. This seems a common excuse here. Having run all the wires for the AIS it was now time to get it mounted in it's permanent location. This involved taking everything out of a cupboard then removing the built-in shelves, running fused power cords for it, the GPS along with changing the one for the VHF radio. Thankfully I managed to get it all done in one day.
Tuesday found me at the mast tacking apart winches. There were three to do. I could get the drums off and some of the gears but some were held in by a retaining pin that you are supposed to hit with a punch to make it rotate so it can be removed. None of the three cooperated. I left them to soak in a break free solution overnight. I was able to clean the other parts.
First thing Wednesday i started on the winches again. After a night soaking i managed to get all three apart and cleaned. They will be ready to go in for their re-chroming on Friday when i pick the others up. Next it was off to the town of Consolascion to try and get some info on the repair of the broken 12 volt refrigeration compressor. I also sent an email to Technautics Inc. who manufactured the system regarding some trouble shooting. The shop here had no idea regarding a 12 volt system but would do some checking for me.
Thursday was once again the day for Hyde Sails to come for fitting on the enclosure. No work had been done as after they left the previous week we had discovered a problem. Today all the problems were hopefully worked out and next week we'll see progress again. I also had received an email from Rich who now is the owner of Technautics with some ideas on trouble shooting the compressor problem.
Friday I was off to Cebu to both pickup and drop off winches. Then shopping at one of the malls. Kathy had Chin Chin here to clean. They did the outside and then the inside. the evening brought a very big rain squall lasting about two hours. As the boat was just cleaned we even managed to fill a water tank.
Saturday is somewhat quiet as the workers get off at noon, it's also when we yachties get together up in the bar for a BBQ bringing a dish to share and something on the grill. Yesterday we were also treated to the "Grand Final" of Aussie rules football. This would be the equivalent of the "Super Bowl" for the followers of that sport. One of the yachties is is an avid fan of Hawthorne who won the cup. I spent the morning working on the refrigeration compressor problem but there is still no joy in Mudville.
Now Kathy has gotten no mention so far but on supervising and helping of the Friday cleaning, She is always busy with laundry done in a bucket along with daily cleaning and cooking and never ending job of looking after me.
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| FITTING MATERIAL BEFORE CUTTING OUT THE WINDOW |
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| NOW A WINDOW AND GRACE THE SEAMSTRESS |
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| RAINING BUT THEY'RE NOT MELTING |
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| BLUE CAT PERCHED ON A WINCH |
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| YOU CAN'T HAVE A PARADE WITHOUT SOUND THESES WERE EVERY 100 METERS ALONG THE ROUTE |
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| A LOCAL GATHERING WITH DINNER ON THE BARBIE |
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| A BIT OF DANCING |
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| ABOARD ONE OF THE FLOATS |
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| A SMILING PARTICIPANT |
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| READY TO GET UNDERWAY A LOCAL JEEPNEY |
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| THE CAP RAIL WITH PLUGGED SCREWS ALL TO BE REMOVED |
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| THE 12 FOOT LONG GENOA TRACK NEEDS TO COME OFF TOO HERE YOU CAN ALSO SEE THE JOINT IN THE CAP RAIL |
Above I finally did manage a video of part of our tryke ride from Danao after the fiesta I'll attempt some more but no guarantee's It seems the videos are o long but I'll keep trying
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