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What this video covers

The crew of the catamaran Learning By Doing performs several maintenance tasks while anchored at Roslyn Bay, Great Keppel Island, to prepare for a passage to Lombok, Indonesia.0:35 The captain replaces a leaking tappet cover gasket on the port-side engine, noting that previous overheating had melted the original seal and damaged a solenoid cable.2:15 He installs a new gasket and cleans the engine block to resolve persistent burnt-oil odors.5:35 The crew also installs a new mainsail, which requires trimming the five-meter battens to fit the sail's dimensions.9:54 To protect the sail from stretching during heavy-weather reefing, the captain adds a pulley system to the third-reef outhaul on the boom.11:35 Additionally, the crew retrieves a lost spinnaker halyard by climbing the mast and fishing a weighted line through the internal conduit with a coat hanger.13:27 Finally, the captain reinstalls a repaired Raymarine chart plotter, restoring AIS functionality.1:20 These repairs successfully return the vessel to operational condition for upcoming coastal sailing.

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