Vira - Sailboat rebuild, Irwin Citation 34

Really short day (just an hour or so), I was sick today. Sail pack  It is time to do final dry fit and partial installation for the sail pack.  Sail pack and lazy jacks dry fit, looks like pack fits very well. Little bit big at front, but as i am looking to upgrade main sail - better bigger, than smaller.   Shat left to do - install cheek blocks and cleat on the mast. Put eye  for front-top edge of the pack. Assemble zipper open-close line and put.  

 Autopilot Autopilot was installed a year ago. I did not have mood to finish installation. Steering arm was installed just on friction, and friction between bronze and stainless is not great. So time to time if I try to fight with autopilot arm slipped and whole settings appeared to be lost. Other problem if it slipped to counter clockwise  autopilot actuator and arm get aligned in line and actuator can't work at all. There key was missed, actually I had a key, but rudder stock did not have a key way. Trust me, cutting keyway in rudder sock with Drimel in boat yoga position was not a most fun experience. Rudder is in straight position. 90 degree between arm and actuator.   I have actuator mounted in diagonal between port side wall of the engine compartment and arm is installed on starboard side. It looks little strange but it saved a lot of space and let to have easy access to actuator motor.  Other view to the rudder stock   Other issue fix i pushed back foe a ...

 Lake Travis get water back it was 20 Ft in 24 hours  We have got a lot of water! Some sailing fun on Saturday (~4 hours). We decided to go lake upstream direction and after about 1.5 hours nice sailing we was stopped by police and POLITELY asked to return back to marina.  Then we found the lake is closed for recreational boater for now due to a lot of floating trash on the water and search operation is steel in progress.    Refrigerator Since day one I installed refrigerator, I think how to make it work more efficient. couple years ago I have converted my ice chest to embedded refrigerator, it was done by re-aranging parts from the smal household refrigerator. I ended up mount evaparator inside the ice box, compressor is located under LPG locker and condencer in between LPG locker and starboard side of the hull. it is appeared pretty "cozy" space, but not a lit free airflow to keep condenser cool well a specially when it is working hard to cool 20-30 lb of...

 Shower Thermostatic valve installed. Button is to ope/close shower, and regulator is supposed to control water temperature. so far water is running and not leaking. Short glance under sink. Connection hoses have synthetic cover, hopefully will not disintegrate fast.     Fixed windows last touches. Painted frames inside in black to mach with silicon.  V-berth. Last touch here too. Rebuilt triangle insert and made a pillow for it. Put hinges on the bottom locker at cabinet and found the locker opening may play as step for V berth. BUT, it will be nice to make a step sliding out when door opened.  Head Added handles to head door, For now they are mounted on VHB tape.  Door, View from inside Door, view from outside Replaced drawer stoppers. LPG solenoid controller, ready for installation.