mvweebles
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- Mar 21, 2019
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- Location
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- Vessel Name
- Weebles
- Vessel Make
- 1970 Willard 36 Trawler
Tuesday, Feb 7th 2023. 4-days in the water. And I'm back at the yard (but still in the water).
So Saturday's launch went okay but there's a long punch list, and frankly much of it is simply inattentiveness. I believe I mentioned that some of the mechanical and electrical stuff is Team Orlando. Orlando is pretty solid and knowledgeable. His team however is not. I don't mean to sound crabby, but just seems like unforced errors - long list of non-op stuff that should have been tested long before I came aboard: propane solenoid; engine gauges; bilge pump switches only work on Manual; ventilation fan for head; and so on (quite a bit more as a matter of fact).
This morning when I left to make the 1-mile run from Marina to Yard I did something stupid. Weebles' slip is a shared slip - I have a port tie, boat next to me a starboard tie. I'm bow-in so I had two bow lines down, one of which I forgot about until I was rudely reminded. No problem - no one around so not even a bruised ego. Something didn't feel quite right but figured I was rusty.
Something was not quite right....when I went to depart, I had no reverse. So I re-tied Weebles (again) and figured the transmission linkage must have dropped off. Nope - shaft had backed-out of the transmission coupling!!!! Orlando came over - set screws had not been tightened.
PICTURES:
1. Headed back to Yard. Beautiful morning.
2. Coupling. This is a frame from a video so blurry. Barely visible is the Woodruff key that should be buried in the coupling. Second pic is when Orlando came over to repair.
3. Rafted 6-deep to commercial boats.
So Saturday's launch went okay but there's a long punch list, and frankly much of it is simply inattentiveness. I believe I mentioned that some of the mechanical and electrical stuff is Team Orlando. Orlando is pretty solid and knowledgeable. His team however is not. I don't mean to sound crabby, but just seems like unforced errors - long list of non-op stuff that should have been tested long before I came aboard: propane solenoid; engine gauges; bilge pump switches only work on Manual; ventilation fan for head; and so on (quite a bit more as a matter of fact).
This morning when I left to make the 1-mile run from Marina to Yard I did something stupid. Weebles' slip is a shared slip - I have a port tie, boat next to me a starboard tie. I'm bow-in so I had two bow lines down, one of which I forgot about until I was rudely reminded. No problem - no one around so not even a bruised ego. Something didn't feel quite right but figured I was rusty.
Something was not quite right....when I went to depart, I had no reverse. So I re-tied Weebles (again) and figured the transmission linkage must have dropped off. Nope - shaft had backed-out of the transmission coupling!!!! Orlando came over - set screws had not been tightened.
PICTURES:
1. Headed back to Yard. Beautiful morning.
2. Coupling. This is a frame from a video so blurry. Barely visible is the Woodruff key that should be buried in the coupling. Second pic is when Orlando came over to repair.
3. Rafted 6-deep to commercial boats.