Maintenance day

 Yesterday Arpex had a maintenance day.

First the mooring needed to be checked and the mooring buoy needed to be replaced. The diver, Marivaldo, checked the chain, bridles and the rope, and cleaned off all the barnacles. The rope felt really as if it was way too short. But it turned out, that the heavy barnacle grows was just weighting down on it. So, once all cleaned, and new buoy installed, the arrangement was ok again. Actually the new buoy works much better than the old one, and mooring will become easier now.

I started work producing a template for the netting. And also to try out the arrangement for the new anchor position. But besides this, also another few jobs are stacking up, so that the to do list is becoming longer and longer. Let's take a look:

Preliminary To Do List:
- Repair navigation light and top light
- Repair rear bilge pump
- Shorten reefing lines
- Exchange boom-wang rope
- Sand and recoat wooden external parts
- Sand and recoat outboard support
- Finish and paint the new anchor support
- Paint entrance step
- Sand and repaint seat locker hatch
- Repair backside of entrance hatch
- Install bunk grating support
- Develop and produce portable-cooker support

Dingy: