Vira - Sailboat rebuild, Irwin Citation 34

One more work day, now alone. Dock  Vira in the new dock.Much more convenient place to get for sail Started work early morning to catch couple hours before sun get high and pure Texas hell begins. I moved from repair dock to pocket slip, it is good news. but likely all good news.Dock is very tight for Vira's bally. Dock just  about foot wider than boat beam, also dock corners have any protection.I decided to spend money to put dock wheels. Other inconvenience it is 4-th dock from the lake and every wake is waking the boat. Today I installed dock wheels. To put l2" wheels i had to hide mount in flush with dock, otherwise, if i just mount wheels as is boat will not be able to get in and out. Air conditioner Received replacement for my PM500-115 raw water pump.Webasto sent it even before received broken one. Looks cool! Right? I reinstalled new pump and..... after I powered it on some scratching noise instead of water flow happened, than almost no sound. It sounded like impeller ...

 Just fun, almost. Had a big team, Me, Son, Father and Eugene A lot of fun. Pleasure sail, mostly learning new for me boat. During the day, little annoying wind speed changes. Some tacks was really fun. Learned how to work with Big Genoa sail and relatively small main. Boat heels pretty easy up to 20 degrees (subjective) then keeps heel under control. Tried to beat with 100 degrees tacks successfully.    Some incidents Had "intentional" MOB, did drop sail and motored to pick up MOB.  Water intrusion from broken PVC pipe what was routed from "chain locker" to thru-hull cockpit drain discharge, open end of broken pipe appeared below water level resulted very minor flooding (5-6 gal of water in bilge). It happens when boat had descent tilting on port side.. I have compressed rubber hose connecting thru-hull and PVC pipe to prevent leakage again.

 Boat Spent whole day from 6 AM till 7PM In sorting, ordering, packing all parts, tools, epoxy, paints in plastic trays to be able to toss them the way they will not fly during the sailing. Also me and my wife Maria  vacuumed and washed almost every corner of the boat. Original state Before sunrise After cleaning

Mast, sails. Preparing to sail lake in 2 weeks. Mast stays well, all stays tighten, and adjusted, Furler fixed. Put Genoa back after furler and front stay repair.  Repaired the sail, it had teared umbrella cover and some stitches in spreaders touching area area. now it looks like new. And, yes 34' boat Genoa is a big cloth! Furler tested, works well everything is moving as expected.      Mast top Had one more travel to mast top, it is very simple with  permanent steps. As part of sail day I planned in two weeks, I would like to install Windex,  installing windex i need to make sure VHF antenna is not interfering with it, so install antenna as well, but antenna cable is very old and not good to be used any more, so I replaced cable as well to molded in connector on the mast top. Windex installed Windows Long day - Route new openings for 5  windows.    I used CNC machined template to cut openings with proper angle to horizon. Template is made f...

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