No sailing today, but I did a ton of maintenance:
- Bought bargain ratcheting crimpers (thanks for the tip Maine Sail)
- Fixed crappy wiring to battery with beautifully executed double crimps
- Mildly injured self with crimpers, resulting in hilarious “crimps vs. bloods” joke
- Re-oriented battery so that the terminals were on the other side and the leads weren’t as taut
- Failed to realize that rotating the battery 180º would also mean that the positive and negative terminals would also be rotated 180º and connected the battery backwards
- Installed a 6A 3-stage battery charger to maintain our battery
- Got new, much longer jib sheets in 5/16″ StaSet (that’s 5/16″ Jen)
- Rigged up new shackles for the boom vang
- Mixed up some West Systems epoxy with a ton of colloidal silica in it to fill the holes for the port locker hinge
- Examined and temporarily shored up the broken deadlight with an ample amount of shrink wrap tape (thanks Bob)