Well the sun was out and temps climbed above 40 degrees so spring must truly be on its way up here in the frozen north. To celebrate, I removed her winter coverings and let her deck see the sunshine once again.

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On the agenda to be completed before our May 1st launch is some engine surgery (I found this which makes me feel confident), rebedding stanchions and various deck hardware, cabin heater install, new kiwigrip, sheave box maintenance, mast lighting replacement, waste hose replacement, cutlass bearing replacement along with the usual bottom paint and bright work maintenance so it's looking like I've got a busy month ahead of me.

Two questions that I have;
1) I plan on caulking the exposed deck seams and chain plates with 3M 4200 as I noticed some water migration. If water has penetrated the exposed deck seams it will follow the inside of the hull to the bilge and the core shouldn't be exposed right?
2) The only part of my engine instrument panel that is actually still working is my tachometer and towards the end of last season even that seemed to get a little twitchy (tach guage would fall from 17 to 14 for short periods even though I could hear the engine chugging away reliably at 17), what would cause such fluxuation?

Hope spring is treating everyone well!

-Josh

Last edited by JBiermann; 03/30/15 01:25 AM.