The good news is that the inspection is happening this Friday the 16th. The bad news is that we will fail the inspection! We are actually very close to having all the required information and equipment but the delay caused by the leak that almost sunk the boat together with the time it took to get the mast back up has eaten up all the buffer we had.
The main issue is the emergency rudder. The cassette system is installed but the blade is not ready and we were obviously not able to test the emergency rudder without a blade.
Bob and I used last weekend to make progress on the following:
- Rewire the mast connections and change most of the through-deck bypass
- Bring the emergency VHF antenna to the chart table and solder a nice (silver/Teflon) connector
- Bring the main VHF antenna to the chart table. As mentioned earlier, there is no additional connector between the mast and the VHF radio (this is a good thing, very low loss)
- Getting ready to put the fridge back into action. We found out that one of the spare pump got damaged by the leak and it needs to be replaced
- Tested the short wave radio to receive weather faxes. Here below is a fax that was received in the noisy marina environment.
- Tested the short wave radio with the pactor modem to insure that we can send and receive emails using short waves
- Build a bunk slighter better than the lowered table in the salon
- Started cleaning a very messy boat and collect the items that will be needed for the inspection
A weather fax