21st January

Osprey
John Bowering
Thu 22 Jan 2009 13:33

We completed the engine header tank assembly today and will be able to test it tomorrow. Have finally found a worker called David who is now helping with the clean up. Ordered Anita’s Rotli’s so they are here to be frozen over the weekend. Serviced the navionics which are now fine apart from the fault on the echo sounder transducer. The spare has arrived from Portland and once we have finished with the engine room we will run the tests on that. Annoyingly, if it has to be replaced we will have to get the boat lifted our of the water for a few hours to have this done. If we can’t get a slot for the lift we may have to live without it for a month. Not the best in these water but not the end of the world either. It is going to be tight getting all this work done before the boss arrives on Sunday but we will be close. We will have to go out to anchor on the way out of Falmouth so that we can re-rig the davits, which have been removed for the berthing at the Cat Club and to stow the dinghy. It will also give us time to clean up the anchor after it has been sitting in the mud here for a few weeks.