Frances spent a lot of time this week getting the interior of the boat in shape for a cruise to Greenport, Long Island but come Saturday morning, it was clear that were weren't going to make it. She left the display shown above where she had carefully clipped all the little non-slip pieces that we use under just about everything, to dry in the sun. Looks like her sandals needed drying, too.
There was still a lot of stuff to put away and Bill wanted to change to spark plug wires on both engines to avoid doing any more damage to our Mallory YLM distributors, which, we recently learned, cannot tolerate solid copper or stainless plug wires. The instructions that came with our distributors make that pretty plain but frankly, we had never looked at what plug wires we had installed on these engines when we first bought the boat. Sure enough, they were solid stainless, so they had to go.
This is the starboard distributor with all but the coil wire changed to the correct wires. God, what a job getting those new wires on the outboard plugs. On that side, the engine is very close to the water tank and there's very little room to get the wires to seat on the plugs. We did it, however, with a minimum of cuts and bruises.
As Frances got things squared away inside the boat, we had the time to fix a loose connection in our waste tank monitor and check the fit for a deck hinge that will replace the broken hinge on the engine hatch on the starboard side. Thanks to a member of the Silverton Owners Club for a reference to the seller of this 1/4-inch thick engine hatch hinge. It doesn't have the same footprint as the old hinge, but we'll fix that next winter. Before you ask, yes, we are replacing both hinges on that engine cover.
We shot some video that you will probably find as interesting as watching paint dry.
We stored our inflatable on the foredeck for the winter and to get it up there, we had to deflate its little keel. During the cold winter, the sides deflated a little and at this point, with it mounted on the swim platform, everything needed to be repositioned and reflated. Reflated? Seems like that's a real word. We thought we made it up.
We went at that project after a brief shopping trip to get dock flowers. Frances got a really nice ones. (If you are from Norwich, yes, they came from Malerba's).
The video (reduced to six minutes or so) won't win any Oscars but it's fun to watch next winter when the snow is blowing against our windows.
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