Fwd: Maintenance on a boat

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From: bruce warren <bruce@bct-consulting.ca>
Date: Thursday, 15 September 2016
Subject: Maintenance on a boat
To: Theresa Turner <turner_3@telus.net>


I am waiting on arrival of robin tomorrow sometime and Mike et al tomorrow night. 

This is a short summary of a not unusual event in the life of Tatoosh. 

I think I have done enough cleaning to pass the up coming inspection so I thought I would do a minor task. Richard has noted that the retainer ring on the cockpit compass was loose, so I thought I'd fix it. So here goes for what should be a 5 minute task. 

- find proper screw driver 

- discover that the screw hole has either been stripped or screws are wrong size 

- search spares on board

- walk up to marina store and get what may be right diameter but are too long

- use new screw to "tap" new thread into hole

- fetch Dremel told to cut screws to proper length 

- discover that Dremel is not working( was working in May!?)

- try to disassemble to trouble shoot the Dremel but I need a star type driver. The ones I have are too big of course . Now have new item for the ToDo list. 

- dig out hack saw and vice grips, crouch on dock and saw off 1/4" of screw without drawing any blood!

- re- assemble, put away tools

Total time: just over 1 hour. Result: 1 item off the list and one item added, progress??

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Regards,

 Bruce Warren  P. Eng

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Regards,

 Bruce Warren  P. Eng