This morning John brought me the repaired manifold Whangarei. By using a highly heat-resistant epoxy for bonding and applying an additional layer of epoxy at the junction of the aluminum manifold and brass filler neck, the leak was effectively sealed. With a proper manufacturing process, the leak could have been prevented from occurring in the…

Diesel-John who worked on the closing of leak and gave me 2 calls today. The first one was the information that he found the route cause of the leak. The filler neck was not properly sealed with high temperature epoxy and through the gaps he identified, the coolant was leaking out of the manifold. This…

This morning I went to get a new lid for the cooled manifold of the genset hoping it will stop the leakage on top of the manifold. Once I had this new lid attached, I saw that the coolant leaks out between the aluminum diecast and the brass made filler neck. This is the worst…

I was considering all things to be done before leaving NZ for good and wind conditions. The wind is not very good to sail to Bay of Islands Marina (BOI). We would need to leave very early from here while it is still dark. And then would be forced to sail in very week winds…

Preparations for departure are going on well. If all runs fine today and the wind forecast is good, we will depart tomorrow very early morning from Whangarei. Outbound clearance documents are already prepared for the procedure in Bay of Islands Marina in Opua. It’s really cold and humid now here on the North Island of…

We worked most of yesterday again on storing provisions. On all cans we wrote the content and the date, removed the paper around, and washed them in soapy water. Unfortunately the content of about half of the can was written with an Eding 330 permanent marker pen which turned out to be not permanent on…

This morning I started early. First I worked for a while on the food we bought yesterday. Then I took off to get my gas bottle tested. Found the shop pretty quickly. To make it short the test engineer, a charming lady, told me they can’t test it because I need 4 different NZ documents…

It was a major task yesterday to prepare the shopping list. However, today it was a 7 hours action from going to Pack’n’Save until shopping carts were returned and the cockpit enclosure set-up. We had 2 big shopping carts inside the shop. At the checkout we repacked into 3 carts. The cashier turned out to…

The new GA200 booster GPS antennae for the Axiom chartplotter is built in and it works. I started early in the morning because the weather did not follow the forecast, which said it’s will rain all day. Bright sunshine in the early morning hours, followed by rain showers, light and heavy ones and no rain…

…to open the 10 mm hole of the old GPS antennae mounting stud to 16 mm in 4 mm marine grade GPS antennae bar. Now it’s ready for mounting the new GPS antennae. I prepared a bunch of other things already and tomorrow I want to finally install the new GA200 antennae. I also want…