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• Ordered bag for Elise's Boombox + packed up stereo cables and little charging unit for the ipod.
• Ordered new bolt cutter that should cut through rod
• Ditch old ripped white and red spinnaker
• Added permanently rigged sheets to the storm jib
• Packed spinnaker and selected Spinnaker backup #4
• Picked up new Elise 3/4 spinnaker (Thanks Nathan!)
• Primed fiberglass crack to fill it up/correct structure
• Registered new PLB (floating ACR unit) online
• Registered new EPIRB (with internal GPS and automatic deployment) online

 

Still ToDos on Elise

Sail Inventory

 

• Try out Libra's Spinnaker
• Add the frog logo on a new spinnaker + New spinnaker is on order (race 3/4 - Elise has a 1.5oz too for heavier weather) - DELIVERY SHOULD BE THIS WEEK

Glass/Epoxy Work

 

• Epoxy fixed end of companion way hatch end points (for lock) - READY!!!
• -- reseal and fix spider cracks in gel coat / cockpit (in progress)

Offshore and short-handed Improvements

• Seal off companionway hatch with weather strip
• chafe protection for halyards
• buy new plexiglas bottom door 
• Make equipment location chart & display it
• Add sheets to storm jib (away from #4)
• Investigate a way to generate power during the night to run autopilot
• Band it tool or Spanish Windlass
• Add a second track on the mast for the trysail to make it easy to hoist
• G10 a way to hold emergency rudder inside and a way to hold a big anchor
• Get new bolt cutter capable of slicing through rod
• Add 2nd solar panel

Living Quarters

• Tighten Metal Lifting Eye above keel boats (it wiggles)
• Fix wooden support for the engine. got chipped at

Racing Improvements

• Thicken cover for jib halyard
• Tape/Sign anything that needs to be on the boat (car positions, halyard positions, etc...)
• • Add instrument repeater on the mast for boat speed
• • Replace one backstay turning block below deck that got a bit corroded

Electrical

• Deck level LED lights
• Add ability to charge the battery that is not in use 

Trailer

• Check lights & brakes
• --Lube, grease, rust proof areas of trailer, tire pressure, bearings

More Progress on Elise

Done today

• Change vang line for a slightly longer one
• Made Elise a Boombox (yes finally!) - not permanently fixed, so we can take the stereo and speakers only when we want them
• Tried a soft pvc fix to prevent jib sheets from getting caught in the adjustable cars on a tack
• Measure hatch for a) weather strip and b) new plexiglas hatch for offshore
• Removed unused SSB wires
• Removed shelf of the port side

Productive Day on Elise

• Replaced horsehoe holder with one that wasn't broken
  
• Attached aft flotation devices we keep (mainly for offshore, but it's just air)
• Cleaned up some more wires
  
Cleaned aft part of the boat
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• Improved/Cleaned up basic storage and paved the way for storage for long distance offshore races
  
  
• Jib Halyard fixed (end of end)
• New lifelines with the right length (thanks Jason!)
  
• Tested spare autopilot Ray, worked just fine
  
• Tested main autopilot Nick, worked just fine
  

Boat Work June 2012

Thank you Nathan, Serge and Jason

Electrical

• Connected lights of the newly installed compass
• Connected the sailing instruments
  
• Connected the drive unit of the autopilot
• Cleaned up further the connections to the instruments and drive unit with solidly screwed on terminal blocks with splash guards

Navigation

• New compass installed
• Wooden areas secured with epoxy to avoid rot and moisture infiltration

Short-handed Sailing

• New support for Tiller Autopilot 2 'Ray' set up on deck (the regular one wasn't strong enough and the pilot came popping out of it)

Long-Distance Sailing

• Forward flotation aid (opti buoys) secured safely and out of the way

Productive Day on Elise

Serge, Nathan and I did some work on the boat

• Connected all instruments to the new panel up from the battery and installed the splash guard
• Cleaned up all wires inside the nav table and ran power cables for the autopilot and the instruments so they are ready to be connected to a terminal block
• Connected ground cables to a new screwed on terminal block near the autopilot panel, out of the way
• Ran both ground and power cables for autopilot and instrument along the hull and under the companionway so they are 'high' instead of low and under the hatch boards. Lower risk of corrosion we hope
• Drilled holes and resined them in preparation for the new mount for the tiller autopilot (the spare autopilot for Elise)
• Debugged some issue with the topoff solar panel (the battery wasn't being charged)
• Varnished the wooden panels alongside the companionway hatch
• Put starboard quarterberth back into groove (thanks Jason! some pro tools help)
• Labeled the jib halyard on the port clutch
• Jason also changed the color of one of the pole trip lines to blue (the other one is an elegant pink) and shortened them

The ToDos for Elise...

Believe it or not, we are actually an organized bunch

In bold, work in progress

Sail Inventory

• Buy a second hand spinnaker as 2nd spare in the event of damage to sail that cannot be fixed before the next race. We are trying out Libra's old spinnakers
• Add the frog logo on a new spinnaker
• New spinnaker is on order (race 3/4 - Elise has a 1.5oz too for heavier weather)

Glass/Epoxy Work

• Epoxy fixed end of companion way hatch end points (for lock)
• -- reseal and fix spider cracks in gel coat / cockpit (in progress)
• • Regelcoat/epoxy  chip at trailing edge/corner of keel and fix the keel in general. Nice and smooth

Offshore and short-handed Improvements

• Figure out a way to further seal companionway hatch with rubber
• chafe protection for halyards
• Fix autopilot 'Ray' support on deck
• buy new plexiglas bottom door 
• Make equipment location chart & display it
• Add sheets to storm jib (away from #4)
• Investigate a way to generate power during the night to run autopilot
• Band it tool or Spanish Windlass
• Add a second track on the mast for the trysail to make it easy to hoist
• SSB Receiver for next ocean race

Living Quarters

• Fix quarterberth back onto its groove
• Tighten Metal Lifting Eye above keel boats (it wiggles)
• Connect stereo (Nat has holder) and check with 4 sets of speakers + iPod

Racing Improvements

• Thicken cover for jib halyard
• Shorten pole trip lines and change the grey color into a different one
• adjust lifeline heights (particularly starboard side)
• rine tune rig for heavy air
• rig flattener (that can double up as a reefing line if need be)
• Tape/Sign anything that needs to be on the boat (car positions, halyard positions, etc...)
• G1
• • 0 a way to hold emergency rudder inside and a way to hold a big anchor
• • PVC cover for jib car track head
• • Change aft lifelines to a rubbery version
• • Add instrument repeater on the mast for boat speed

Navigation

• Change compasses for new ones

Electrical

• Redo/Re-lead the electrical connections to the NKE autopilot
• Deck level LED lights
• Add ability to charge the battery that is not in use 

Trailer

• Check lights & brakes
• --Lube, grease, rust proof areas of trailer, tire pressure, bearings

Work Weekend on Elise

We are still cleaning up the electrical system of Elise - moving all connections to dryer areas and packed into splash-protected boxes. We also fixed up some more of the cracks in the gelcoat near the cockpit area, something that happens after prolonged exposure to UV (it takes a primer to penetrates through the cracks and replace the gelcoat before it spreads further and start posing structural issues and then a coat of paint to protect the primer)

Accomplished:

• All siperweb cracks now treated
• All new battery cables completed and connected, including cables for the big battery (mainly used for offshore trips and autopilot operation) - this included making some new cables
  
  

Installed splash guard for all the cables near the battery

Removed a couple of unused cables

Cleaned up GPS connection and added ground back (for some reason, it went missing and it had lost the GPS)

About 50% of the connections ready for the autopilot - missing two connectors to finish it up including making the missing wires, adding new fuse holders on the positive side

And a bunch of other small electrical thing