New Mainsail and Boat Mods
8 août 2023 · 19 min · 5K vues · Keppel Bay Marina
Ce que couvre cette vidéo
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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