{"id":615,"date":"2015-12-13T14:26:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T19:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/?p=615"},"modified":"2016-05-25T17:09:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T21:09:31","slug":"refit-part-2-in-to-the-shed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Refit Part 2 – In to the Shed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1-2015-12-08<\/a><\/p>\n

In early\u00a0December, Kinship was moved indoors. \u00a0Loyalist Cove Marina <\/a>built a new building for repairs and storage in 2013\u00a0and we are lucky to have access to this great facility. \u00a0The building is a short drive from the marina, so there are height restrictions on the road, but these are about the same as the door height.<\/p>\n

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The building has 4 doors on the far side that are just tall enough to allow Kinship to fit in. \u00a0There are currently about 12 boats in various states, some like Kinship in for relatively minor work, others in for a complete refit.\u00a0Working on the boat in shirtsleeves in the winter is quite the treat.<\/p>\n

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Last week Dave (mechanic Dave in the case, there are at least 3 “Dave”s involved in this project) and Dixon got the pushpit rails off and now we have the arch on the boat to check the fit, which is just about perfect.<\/p>\n

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\"4-2015-12-12<\/a><\/p>\n

The arch sits on the toerails and has removable feet that will allow us to remove the arch to get it outside and back down the road to the marina.<\/p>\n

When we hauled out we noticed the keel joint had some cracking, this is just in the fairing, the plan is to redo the fairing with a layer or two of 18 oz glass and use a flexible epoxy so we don’t get a repeat. \u00a0We had the forward keel bolts checked last spring so I thought it was worth checking the aft bolts.<\/p>\n

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\"5-2015-12-12<\/a><\/p>\n

I removed the holding tank and took a look. \u00a0Unlike the forward bolts, the bolts under the holding tank don’t have a plate to spread the load. I will add a plate and torque the bolts. \u00a0I don’t think this is related to the surface cracking at the keel joint. \u00a0The likely cause was a “dredging” incident in Belleville over the summer or just water getting into the layers of fairing material. \u00a0As Kinship has a keel shoe, I think it is just wise to improve the load paths here.<\/p>\n

I have been struggling to get the wheel off the boat. \u00a0The paint has failed and the grip is badly worn. \u00a0Just undo the quick release and take it off I thought. \u00a0Well after 4 or 5 attempts with a hub puller, heat and eventually a hacksaw and some serious hub pulling it is now off. \u00a0I need to clean it up and send it to be powder coated. \u00a0Lewmar still sells the grips so it should be good as new before too long. \u00a0Once we have the boat fully back together I will see if we can put a wheel mount on the pushpit so we can take advantage of the quick release and open the cockpit when we are not sailing. \u00a0This should also make sure we don’t end up with the wheel stuck again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In early\u00a0December, Kinship was moved indoors. \u00a0Loyalist Cove Marina built a new building for repairs and storage in 2013\u00a0and we are lucky to have access to this great facility. \u00a0The building is a short drive from the marina, so there are height restrictions on the road, but these are about the same as the door […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[8,4],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-refit2016","tag-arch","tag-projects"],"amp_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}