Darley Mist - 2015
2015 has
been an interesting year.
First off
plans formulated 2014 finally came to fruition.
Phil from
Steel Marine manufactured and fitted the "radar arch" to which has
been fitted two 120watt solar panels charging the house batteries through a
MPPT controller. A disconnect switch is situated to the right of the GPS
mounted at the navigation station.
The other
item that needed renewing over the winter was the cooker. The old cooker was no
longer working properly and had a gas leak from the oven. A new cooker was
purchased from Germany and shipped out to be fitted in May. Due to a lack of
the correct fittings it was not actually fitted until July. It is however a
great improvement.
There were
though a number of unscheduled works required during the season.
When I was
out on Darley Mist in May it was apparent that the bottom rudder bearing was on
the point of seizing and made the steering extremely stiff. A replacement
rudder bearing was purchased and this was fitted by IBA in early June. The
transformation was remarkable.
Barry also
did not have a smooth run.
At the start
of his time one of the batteries failed and the other was found to be on its
last legs, so they were replaced.
Then later
the windlass stopped working. An engineer in Poros managed a repair and on
return to Nidri, IBA diagnosed a fault with the windlass relay. This too was
replaced.
[EDIT] Lyn has just reminded me that their excitement was to arrange for the replacement of the holding tank macerator. Thanks for organising that one. Not a job that I am going to rush to repeat.
[EDIT] Lyn has just reminded me that their excitement was to arrange for the replacement of the holding tank macerator. Thanks for organising that one. Not a job that I am going to rush to repeat.
Two other
items have come to light during the season.
The fridge
continues to be extremely temperamental and by the end of the season was not
working at all.
My
"wonderful DIY heavy" passarelle is at the end of its useful life.
But all in
all "I think that we all had a good time?"
Mike
