{"id":4902,"date":"2015-10-04T12:54:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T12:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2015-10-04T12:54:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T12:54:27","slug":"a-storm-of-a-different-sort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=4902","title":{"rendered":"A “storm” of a different sort."},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Sunday morning\u00a0\u00a0and I should be on my way\u00a0for Hampton VA\u00a0by now,\u00a0but I’m not…<\/p>\n

In boating it’s always something. \u00a0In this case, it’s several somethings. \u00a0Of course, right now it would be easy to\u00a0blame my delays on the weather with the powerful hurricane Joaquin, working his way up the coast. \u00a0However, it’s not just about the weather that’s keeping Pandora on the hard. \u00a0 Unfortunately, it’s about a “storm” of a very different sort.<\/p>\n

In my last post, I wrote about a problem with the bow thruster. \u00a0 Well, it’s as bad as I had feared, perhaps worse. \u00a0It seems that those “floods” in the thruster compartment, the ones that happened prior to my owning the boat, have taken their toll on the unit. \u00a0And now, the “hinge” that allows the thruster to go up and down into the hull, is plenty corroded. \u00a0The plan WAS to pull the “pins” that the unit pivots on and clean them up so that the unit pivots more easily. \u00a0Ooops! Easier said than done! \u00a0 When Ben Franklin said “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” he must have been thinking of a problem like this one. \u00a0I’d say that it’s going to take pounds to fix what ounces would have prevented. \u00a0 Sucks for me…<\/p>\n

So, after fussing with the problem for much of a day the “bow thruster guys”, and they ALWAYS travel in pairs, couldn’t make the pin budge, even a little bit. \u00a0So now, the plan is for me to lube them up a few times a day and hope that they free up by Monday when the “team” returns. \u00a0Boy, do I hope that it makes a difference. \u00a0I was really counting on this not being a huge job. \u00a0“Good luck with that Bob, it’s a boat.”<\/p>\n

When they came to work on the now infamous hinge pin, \u00a0it looked like they were setting up shop for the long haul. \u00a0Love the tent. \u00a0Like a couple of kids building a fort. \u00a0However, these “kids” are getting paid plenty. \u00a0\"10-2-15a<\/a>So, after a few days of my “lubing” very few hours, I am not very confident that the problem will be solved easily. \u00a0What am I saying is that “easy” has already left the room. \u00a0 The next option will be to remove much of the unit and take it back to the shop and press the hinge pin out with a hydraulic press. \u00a0Sounds expensive? \u00a0You bet…<\/p>\n

It gets worse. \u00a0The guys stayed late that evening trying to get at least the bilge pumps installed in the thruster compartment. \u00a0I guess that they were tired after a long day. \u00a0I sure was. \u00a0 \u00a0Well, when I arrived the next morning to inspect the work, I was horrified to see that they had installed the bilge pump outlet right in the middle of the side of the hull. \u00a0 It looks like a Frigging ostomy hole, RIGHT IN THE SIDE OF THE HULL!!! \u00a0\"10-4-15a<\/a>There were a number of other options he could have done and one that would have been INVISIBLE. \u00a0Ugh…<\/p>\n

Fixing this is going to be complicated. \u00a0The designer and builder worked hard tol design things so that there are no thru-hulls on either side of the hull, only at the stern. \u00a0The rest go into vertical standpipes that are glassed into the inside of the boat. \u00a0 I think that it’s got to be removed and the hole patched but matching the paint? \u00a0It’s not going to be easy, even though it’s a stock color. \u00a0I guess it’s best to wait till the job is further along\u00a0and then I’ll readdress the “Ostomy Hole” with him. What was he thinking?<\/p>\n

So, with Pandora on “hold” and the weather all sorts of nasty, I feel like Pandora’s\u00a0embroiled in her own personal storm. \u00a0Let’s hope that things settle down aboard Pandora as quickly or at least as soon as the ocean swells subside from our buddy Joaquin.<\/p>\n

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